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Who is Aaron Swartz? The Inexhaustible Legacy of the Internet's Conscience

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    BIOGRAPHY · ACTIVISM · DIGITAL RIGHTS Aaron Swartz: The Fight for the Freedom of Information Twenty-six years lived in the shadow of a manifesto and a prosecution "Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves." — AARON SWARTZ · GUERRILLA OPEN ACCESS MANIFESTO · JULY 2008 TABLE OF CONTENTS Seeds — The Birth of a Prodigy (1986–2004) The Internet's Conscience Awakens (2004–2007) Open Library and the First Major Strike: PACER (2007–2008) The Manifesto — From Eremo to the World (July 2008) SOPA: The Day the Internet Went Dark (2010–2012) Raw Nerve — The Storm Within JSTOR: The Price of the Manifesto (2010–2011) The Final Dance with the State (2011–2013) January 11, 2013 Legacy — The Manifesto Lives On 01 Seeds — The Birth of a Prodigy (1986–2004) Aaron Hillel Swartz was born on November 8, 1986, in Highland Park, Illinois — and he was not an ordinary child. His family learned this when he was exactly three years old. That day...

From Sand to Processor: The Secret History of the Electronic Computer

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      The   Birth   of the Electronic Computer From vacuum tube to transistor, from sand to processor, from machine code to the C language TIMELINE 1801 Jacquard loom ” the idea of programming with punched cards 1837 Babbage — Analytical Engine ” Ada Lovelace wrote the first algorithm 1890 Hollerith punched card system ” the origin of IBM 1936 Alan Turing — Turing Machine ” the theoretical foundation 1943 Colossus ” first programmable electronic computer (vacuum tube) 1945 ENIAC ” first general-purpose electronic computer, 30 tons 1945 Von Neumann architecture ” storing programs in memory 1947 Transistor invented ” Bell Labs, Bardeen, Brattain, Shockley 1954 TRADIC ” first transistorized computer 1958 Integrated circuit (IC) ” Jack Kilby (TI) and Robert Noyce (Fairchild) 1963 ASCII standard ” numbers assigned to letters 1968 DRAM invented ” Robert Dennard, IBM 1971 Intel 4004 ” first microprocessor 1972 C programming language ” Dennis Ritchie, Bell Labs CON...