Silicon Minds

Silicon Minds: The book may be the most powerful technology ever invented. In the hands of a child the results are nothing short of miraculous. Dubose Montgomery, founder of Menlo Ventures in Silicon Valley, can attest to a journey that began with imagining other worlds in the stories of Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein and other […]

Silicon Minds: After graduating from Georgia Tech in the early 1950s, Earle Jones thought he would merely pursue a graduate degree. “Georgia Tech and Stanford had a close relationship three thousand miles apart,” he recalls. “I wanted to go to graduate school, so the guys in Atlanta said, ‘go out to this town called Palo […]

Silicon Minds: Alan Turing was born on June 23, 1912. Well before World War II he conceived of a machine which could compute and it was a machine that, although an abstraction, could solve problems. It was a monumental achievement on par with the framing of relativity and atomic discoveries, though no one at the […]

Silicon Minds: Open source continues to make gains despite the perception that its era has passed. Just recently, the NYSE Technologies announced it was using the open source software called Drupal to make collaboration tools and for content management, an important strategic move for the NYSE which is looking to strengthen global partnerships. The Open […]

Silicon Minds: The legend goes that Don Massaro, President of Shugart Associates in the 1970s, drew the 5.25 inch dimension of the minifloppy diskette on a napkin at lunch. “That’s not quite true,” says Don Massaro. “If you go look at the Wikipedia entry and look at the 5.25 inch story, I’ve tried to fix […]