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https://ztoz.blogThe mapping of integers to integers is a fair summary of the work of programming. A blog about computer science, history of computing, engineering, game theory, and other things that attract my interest.
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George Boole (1815-1864) was a mathematician best known as the progenitor of the Boolean algebra, the system of logic...
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In 1971, three college roommates developed an educational computer game. Titled OREGON, it was a simulation of westwa...
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In Fifth Edition (5e) Dungeons & Dragons™ (D&D), druids can transform into certain Beast forms using the Wild Shape a...
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On August 15th, 1971, President Nixon declared a 90-day freeze on wages, rents, and prices. The next day, the Office ...
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John Bridges is a software engineer that co-developed PCPaint, which in 1984 was one of the earliest digital painting...
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The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers: From Fast Machines to Fast Codes is a technical and business history of the r...
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As catalogs for digital marketplaces grow in size, customers have greater difficulty in finding products that meet th...
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Connect 4 is a solved game in the m,n,k family. On a 7 column, 6 row board, players alternately drop a token into a c...
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Early post-war computing can often seem alien as terminology mixed metaphors and the pioneers brought their own disti...
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Ludii is a general game system for modeling games and puzzles, although it focuses on historical and traditional game...
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MacPaint is a monochromatic raster image painting program that introduced many people to mouse-driven controls, tool ...
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Charles Dodgson (pen name Lewis Carroll) had difficulty remembering numbers, such as dates. He developed a cipher to ...
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The new generation of code assistance tools powered by Large Language Models (LLM)s may be useful in efficiently cate...
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Chatbots Decoded: Exploring AI is a new exhibit from the Computer History Museum (CHM) opening November 20th, 2024. I...
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From the Board Games Study Journal: Mathematical analysis of the Royal Game of Ur Despite many discoveries and propos...
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I’ve given this blog a new look by switching the theme from Noteworthy to Long Form, the latter a theme of my own des...
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The mapping of integers to integers is a fair summary of the work of programming. A blog about computer science, hist...
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Many corporations and agencies allocate a certain amount of their budget towards the creation of public artwork. For ...
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In December 2022, Adobe, through the Computer History Museum (CHM), released the source code for PostScript®, version...
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ZLister, a to-do list management application, is now available. ZLister allows you to create lists with entries and e...