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Computing History

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Publish my article in a WUaS academic journal in this subject
Open Journal Systems. 2012. Open Journal Systems. Public Knowledge Project.

(WUaS's wiki, information technologies and criteria for this - informed by the WUaS academic journal subject matter - are developing, since you can already publish your article at http://www.academia.edu).

Select Blogs
@CHM BLOG. 2012. @CHM BLOG. Mountain View, CA: Computer History Museum.

Select Book Groups, Study Groups, Musical Groups, etc.
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Select Channels
Computing History Youtube Channel. 2013. Computing History Youtube Channel. Mountain View, CA: youtube.com/user/ComputerHistory.

Select Communities, Email lists, etc.
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Select Films
Crowder, Paul. 2009. The Real Revolutionaries. (A film about 'Silicon Valley' and of two intelligent but very different men. William Shockley and Robert Noyce).

2001: A Space Odyssey

Pirates of Silicon Valley

Tron

Hackers

The Matrix

War games

Firewall

Swordfish

Electric Dreams

The Net

Select Interviews
Steve Jobs Interview Computer World. 1995. Steve Jobs Interview Computer World. (http://vimeo.com/31478142#at=0 and http://vimeo.com/31478142). Portland, OR: reedienews.tumblr.com.

Select Libraries, Archives, Collections, etc.
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Select Museums
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Select Photos
Bishop, Todd. 2013. Bill Gates and Paul Allen reprise classic Microsoft photo, three decades later. April 3. geekwire.com/.

Select References
Computer History Museum online exhibits. 2012. Computer History Museum online exhibits. computerhistory.org

DavidGilbert99. 2012. PC Sales Are Flat-Lining. July 12. tech.slashdot.org.

Gates, Billy. 2012. Bill Gates: the Traditional PC Is Changing. July 3. tech.slashdot.org.

Page, Larry. 2014. My first big computer order. (Urs Hölzle originally shared: "15 years ago we placed the largest server offer in our history: 1680 servers ... " and - http://americanhistory.si.edu/press/fact-sheets/google-corkboard-server-1999). Mountain View, CA: plus.google.com/u/0/+LarryPage/posts/SZuC3xpM1A9?cfem=1.

Lydgate, Chris. 2012. Prof. Richard Crandall dead at 64. December 20. Portland, OR: reed.edu.

Newman, Bruce. 2013. Steve Jobs' old garage about to become a piece of history. September 29. Contra Costa Times.

Wadhwa, Vivek. 2013. [http://www.technologyreview.com/news/516506/silicon-valley-cant-be-copied/ Silicon Valley Can’t Be Copied: For 50 years, the experts have tried to figure out what makes Silicon Valley tick. The answer is people]. July 3. Cambridge, MA: MIT Technology Review.

Select Timelines
Computer History Museum Timeline. 2012. Computer History Timeline. Mountain View, CA: Computer History Museum.

Scaruffi, Piero. 2009. A Timeline of Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley: CA: scaruffi.com.

Timeline of Computer History. 2010. Timeline of Computer History. Mountain View, CA: Computer History Museum.

Select Video and Audio
Cavella, Joey and Chris Graves. 2009. Interview with Leary.com's Joey Cavella and Chris Graves - Joi Ito Telling them about the Internet. timothylearyarchives.

Cheifet, Stewart and John Markoff. 1995. The Internet in 1995. (The Internet in 1995, Posted on Wednesday, March 27th, 2013 at 3:32 pm. PT Written by Jim Dalrymple and Peter Cohen). San Francisco, CA: The Computer Chronicles.

Chomsky, Noam. 2013. Noam Chomsky (2013) on "Silicon Valley, the Internet, Google, Wikileaks and other topics". Youtube.com.

Computer History Museum Overview. 2011. Computer History Museum Overview. Mountain View, CA: Computer History Museum.

Dweck, Carol. 2012. Mindset, Failure and Silicon Valley Founders: An interview with Carol S. Dweck. Menlo Park, CA: Santa Clara Valley Historical Association.

Graham, Robert. 2012. The Wagon Wheel Restaurant's Role in Sharing Silicon Valley Technology. Menlo Park, CA: Santa Clara Valley Historical Association.

Higgins, Micheal D. 2013. Remarks by President Higgins at the International Association for Media and Communication Research Conference, Tuesday, 25th June 2013. June 25. (Irish Gaelic). Ireland: president.ie

Jobs, Steve. 1984. The Lost 1984 Video: young Steve Jobs introduces the Macintosh. Cupertino, CA: YouTube.com.

MacLeod, Scott. 2011. Wild Apple: To Apple in memory of Steve Jobs, We both went to Reed College, His inspiration and vision & WUaS, iPhone as Musical Instr subject at WUaS. (collection of newspaper articles, from soon after he died). October 5. scott-macleod.blogspot.com.

Mayer, Marissa. 2012. An Evening with Marissa Mayer. Mountain View, CA: The Computer History Museum.

Metcalf, Bob. 2001. Next Big Thing: Video Internet. Cambridge, MA: MIT Open Course Ware.

Negroponte, Nicholas. 1995?. tape # 469 Lennie Nicholas Negroponte Part1. New York, NY: New York City Municipal Archives.

Roteberg, Jonathan. 2014. The Very First ‘Stevenote’. computerhistory.org.

Schmidt, Eric. 2001. Google's Eric Schmidt: Perspectives on Tech Leadership. Mountain View, CA: Computer History Museum.

Silicon Valley and the European Renaissance Parallels. 2009. Silicon Valley and the European Renaissance Parallels. Menlo Park, CA: Santa Clara Valley Historical Association.

Silicon Valley Historical Association. 2012. Silicon Valley Historical Association. (We believe in recording the hopes, dreams, successes and failures of the people who have changed our lives through technology — while they're still alive). Menlo Park, CA: Santa Clara Valley Historical Association.

Udacity HTML5 Game Programming (CS255) Course Launch. 2013. Udacity HTML5 Game Programming (CS255) Course Launch. (https://developers.google.com/live/shows/116425520/). Mountain View, CA: developers.google.com.

We are sad to report the death of Richard E. Crandall. 2013. [http://reedienews.tumblr.com/post/38500498180/we-are-sad-to-report-the-death-of-richard-e We are sad to report the death of Richard E. Crandall ‘69, Vollum Adjunct Professor of Science and director of Reed’s Center for Advanced Computation. (Crandall is introduced by Steve Jobs at the 2:12 minute mark in video above)]. Portland, OR: reedienews.tumblr.com.

Hardware

Scoble, Robert. 2006. Douglas Engelbart - Inventing the Mouse. Google Video.

History of the Internet

Dear, Brian. 2010. Plato (Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching Operations) History: Remembering the Future. La Jolla, CA: Plato History Foundation.

Engelbart, Douglas. 1968. Doug Engelbart giving the "mother of all Demos" 1968. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford Research Institute.

Select Websites
Silicon Valley Historical Association. 2012. (We believe in recording the hopes, dreams, successes and failures of the people who have changed our lives through technology — while they're still alive). Menlo Park, CA: Santa Clara Valley Historical Association.

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