A Brief History of Warehouse-Scale Computing

A brief History of Statistical Computing

Statistical computing started with the implementation of simple FORTRAN, APL etc. routines. Those routines often run on speci c hardware and used speci c dataformats. Packages like S started to gather routines as well as data in a common environment. Researchers also have been able to add their own functions and provide them to other users of S. But still package and data were tied to speci c p...

Operating system support for warehouse-scale computing

a brief history of zero

it is generally recognised that ‘zero’ as we understand the concept today originated in two geographically separated cultures: the maya and indian. however, if zero merely signified a magnitude or a direction separator (i.e. separating those above the zero level from those below the zero level), the egyptian zero, nfr, dating back at least four thousand years, amply served these purposes. if ze...

A Brief History of the Future of Urban Computing

Since the late 1980s, researchers have been working on a “post-desktop” paradigm for human-computer interaction known as ubiquitous or pervasive computing. Combining any number of mobile, networked and context-aware technologies, this vision hinges on the possibility of embedding computational capacities in the objects and environments that surround us. In order not to be overwhelmed by such a ...

Brief history of mycology in Iran

The history of mycology in Iran is presented in five periods. In the first period (until 1860) there is no sign of Iranian fungi in scientific literature. In the second period (1860–1941) the study of Iranian fungi was started by foreign mycologists who did not visit Iran but worked on plant material collected by botanists. In the third period (1941–1963) the study of Iranian fungi was started ...