nice article by cliff stoll in the scientific american (¡hate subscription!) about curta, curt herzstark's calculating machine for the pocket, patented 1938 in austria and 1950 in the us.

is my favourite line from tom sherman, john warnock reminds me on that.

If we couldn't succeed by being smart five days a week, we probably deserved to fail. I just don't think that's the way to live your life." (john warnock)

timeline of the art of 3d computer animation style and technology. they mention warnock there because of his ph.d. dissertation: "a hidden surface algorithm for computer generated half-tone pictures."

there is a large graphic community that came out of utah: alan kay and warnock know each other since college, alan c. ashton, co- founder of wordperfect, jim clark, founder of silicon graphics and co- founders of netscape, ed catmull, co-founder of pixar, jim blinn, who invented image and texture mapping, nolan bushnell, founder of atari and creator of pong, ...

at this time evans & sutherland "had a close association with the university of utah". well, that's one way to say it: david evans and ivan sutherland were actually teaching at utah. through "the rockafeller family, who also happened to have a seat on the board of e&s some students/employees went to the new york institute of technology computer graphics lab.

also john warnock worked for evans&sutherland for a while on vision simulation systems before he went to xerox palo alto research center ...

nearly missed: robert charles alexander has published a book about the life and work of alan dower blumlein, the electronics engineer who invented stereo (former called 'binaural' from the human factor of having two ears by which we hear sound. blumlein also worked on radar, tv and ...como se dice: mucho más.