Debugging period (1947–1956) In 1947, the terms “bug” and “debugging” were coined. Grace Murray, a Harvard University scientist who worked with the Mark II computer, detected that a moth had got stuck in a relay causing it not to make contact. He detailed the incident in the work log, pasting the moth with tape as … Read more
An AI has been developed using a trove of historical photos from WW2 that is able to recognise the identity of photographers based on the content of photos taken by them. Researchers from both Aarhus and Tampere University used AI to trawl through photographs taken by 23 well-known Finnish photographers during the Second World War. … Read more
The first half of 2020 has seen the largest-ever drop in carbon emissions in a single year, with bigger falls than the financial crisis of 2008, the 1979 oil crisis and even World War II. An international team of researchers estimated that the world saw 8.8 per cent less carbon dioxide emitted in 2020 than … Read more
you can learn things by studying the history of cryptography that can help you relate to the techniques a little better. Early cultures taught us that cryptography is simply a technique or group of techniques used to protect information. The primitive techniques of times past may look antiquated and simple in the face of today’s … Read more
This is a thoughtfully designed, informative, and inspiring tarot deck celebrating the history of science and its forgotten women. What is your reaction when you hear the phrase “women of science tarot”? If you’re rolling your eyes already, you’re probably not going to be won over. This is just one of those things where your … Read more
The history of the modern computer keyboard begins with a direct inheritance from the invention of the typewriter. It was Christopher Latham Sholes who, in 1868, patented the first practical modern typewriter. Soon after, in 1877, the Remington Company began mass marketing the first typewriters. After a series of technological developments, the typewriter gradually evolved into the standard … Read more
This post briefly tells the history of Unix and where Linux fits in. 1969 All modern operating systems have their roots in 1969 when Dennis Ritchie and KenThompson developed the C language and the Unix operating system at AT&T Bell Labs.They shared their source code (yes, there was open source back in the Seventies) … Read more
History command in linux We will see how we can use history command effectively to extract the command which was executed by users in Bash shell. This may be useful for audit purpose or to find out what command is executed.
Today in history, 5 june Events on 5 june AD 70 – Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem. 754 – Boniface, Anglo-Saxon missionary, is killed by a band of pagans at Dokkum in Frisia. 1257 – Kraków, in Poland, receives city rights. 1283 – Battle … Read more