‘Hardware’ Articles at NetMassimo Blog, Page 22

The cabinet version of the videogame Pong

40 years ago Atari announced the video game Pong

Massimo Luciani November 29, 2012 1

On November 29, 1972, Atari announced the release of the videogame Pong, a ping-pong simulator that became a milestone in the history of video games.

The WITCH aka Harwell Dekatron computer under restoration

The oldest digital computer in the world is back into operation

Massimo Luciani November 21, 2012 0

The world’s oldest still working digital computer, the Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computing from Harwell (WITCH), also known as the Harwell Dekatron Computer or simply as the Harwell Computer, was put into operation again after a three-year restoration at The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) in England.

The Titan supercomputer has been activated

Massimo Luciani October 30, 2012 3

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory has launched the new supercomputer Titan, a system that adopts the new Cray architecture that claims to have a peak power of twenty Petaflops. With such performances, Titan could become the most powerful supercomputers in the world surpassing Sequoia.

Google gives new information about its Project Glass augmented reality glasses

Massimo Luciani June 28, 2012 1

At Google I/O 2012, new information about Google Glass, the augmented reality glasses produced by Google’s Project Glass, were provided, in part by Google co-founder Sergey Brin. The Project Glass first prototype was presented at the beginning of April 2012.

Alan Turing statue in Sackville Park in Manchester

Alan Turing was born 100 years ago

Massimo Luciani June 23, 2012 8

The mathematician and computer scientist Alan Mathison Turing was born on June 23, 1912 in London, England. He’s one of the fathers of computer science and in particular of artificial intelligence. During World War II he worked on deciphering German secret codes.