beyond the ionosphere, nasa history series, 1997 - origins - us and canada - europe - geography, politics, and culture - unfolding of the world system

today, in the morning, they must have shown the in advanced taped video of karen spärck jones in memoriam of karen spärck jones. so far i couldn't find a copy and the sigir farcast reporting is kind of mau in regard to content.

sigir forum videos of information retrieval talks at the research channel video library (a place to keep in mind).

1997: the development of erlang, joe armstrong

Erlang was designed for writing concurrent programs that “run forever.” ...

At the time Erlang was first implemented, the view that processes were part of the language rather than the operating system was not widely held (even today, it is a minority view). The only languages having this view of the world that we were aware of at that time were Ada (with tasks), EriPascal (an Ericsson dialect of Pascal with concurrent processes), Chill (with processes), PLEX (with its own special form of processes implemented in hardware) and Euclid.

2007: a history of erlang, armstrong and one in between: 2002, getting erlang to talk to the outside world, joe.

a sort of erlang in 11 minutes, yet there is the original.