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History

2025

  1. Software engineering as a technology
  2. The end of artisanal software

2022

  1. Con artists

2020

  1. Selective enthusiasm

2018

  1. Zeros and ones

2014

  1. The Web is not the internet, and other brief historical notes

2013

  1. Turing... Alan Turing
  2. A brief and absurd history of programming languages
  3. The hackers of October 5: 25 years

2012

  1. Neil Armstrong
  2. About NO, the movie
  3. Flame and MD5
  4. The Turing enigma
  5. Universal machine
  6. Right and wrong
  7. Chess players
  8. The father of computing
  9. Turing week
  10. The strange case of Ettore Majorana
  11. A lunch in Lafayette Square
  12. Quality, correctness and elegance: an interview with Dijkstra
  13. Origins
  14. The lord of the files
  15. The ballad of John Henry (recycled)
  16. The power of the machine

2011

  1. Two men and a universal machine
  2. Galeano on Alan Turing
  3. The Sugar King
  4. The man who saved the world by not doing what he was supposed to
  5. The memorandum

2010

  1. Where did you go to school?
  2. The ENIAC programmers
  3. Bill Gates's pancakes
  4. The Turing machine explained by Turing himself

2009

  1. A bomber's manifesto
  2. The first systems analyst

2008

  1. The man who saved the world by not doing what he was supposed to do
  2. Mersenne, a Sunday diversion for nerds
  3. All for a variable capacitor

2007

  1. Fortran