finally finished the loan from mr tiny as the next "night-reading" has already arrived.

after all i know more about severo ornstein - at least about his role at parc - from the book "dealers of lightning"; which made me curious to read more. for sure his intention was to tell about linc, and the battle over timesharing concept versus "inteRactive real time use" which meant back then personal academic use of a machine. a lot of names in there and some nice recalls.

ibm 1620( CADET=can't add doesn't even try; after that the name was dropped)

ornstein started at bbn to work together with seymour papert to implement logo - but didn't share the conviction of his colleagues, that computer can revolutionize education. (p160)

together with bob kahn he worked on the hardware of imp.

the book is one of the rare sources where bbn doesn't get all the blame for what was wrong/slow with arpanet. for ornstein they tried their best but were fighting with what honeywell supplied. wondering who has written the honeywell ddp 516 story ...

in regard to ibm and their recently all-over-quoted birthday story:

as happened on so many previous occasions, they were practically the last to "get in". personal computers were fundamentally anathema to ibm thinking, so it is hardly surprising that ibm climbed onto the personal computing bandwagen late in the game. the initial success of pc's was due not to any significant conceptual contribution, but rather to ibm's giant size which swamped everyone else once they entered the marked ... it's been suggested that ibm was rescued from the dustbin of history only by the millions of dollars government money that poured into their coffers from air force contracts associated with sage in the 1950s. sic transit, and all that. | severo m. ornstein, computing in the middle ages. a view from the trenches 1955 - 1983

one of the important developments of those days also was the idea to store the bits that represent an image in the computer's memory. nowadays some hope that principle will boost speech recognicion forward, one of the first applications computer scientists dreamed of, back then in the middle ages.

"a european in sweden on european and international developments", carl bildt.

... member of parliament, prime minister, nordic venture network, lundin petroleum, rand corporation, advising the european commission, the european space agency, icann | marrakech meeting |, member of the international commission on the balkans, institute for the study of terrorism and political violence ...

and so on and so forth

it is likely that a compete first draft of the Digital Human will require ten years and over a billion dollars. | project outline 2001

while ipto is 2005 at the heart of the mind the federation of american scientists wants the whole body and its "components". - well, old dream but within the perspectives of 2004.

there must be some open source studies lying around somewhere, as they want to

share and reuse components without legal complexities (defining the terms for “open source” software)

nice statistics from the raid program, provided by the "information exploitation office".

looking "ahead into the future for 60minutes" causes a complexity over 10**20,000.

at least the paper lets one compare:

For comparison, this number for the game of chess is typically estimated at 10**35.

and goes on that despite the power used stays the same, ...

In all experiments, the computing power available to the primary components of RAID, i.e., the ARM and DRM, is restricted to a single processor of about 2.5 GHz

... the time-slot of predicting the future will expand and the time for estimation will be reduced. ie for 60minutes you shouldn't need more than 120 sec. - or so

ipto quote

Whether these scenarios take place in the 23rd century or in the 21st, they have one key element in common that gives them their power, and it’s not the whiz-bang DARPA technology that you—and we—all know and love so much. No, it’s the human mind in action in these complex, real-world situations that makes all the difference. | the heart of the mind