InIT Chroniclesbyhuizhou92·Sep 28The First Personal Computer Was Born in Italy — And Sold as a TypewriterHow Four Engineers Tricked General Electric, Put a Computer on Apollo 11, and Watched Their Own Board Bury the FutureA response icon12A response icon12
Bibhu Ashish Panda·Aug 9From Compilers to Copilots: The 60-Year Evolution of Software Engineering Is Happening AgainWhy the next AI advantage will not come from smarter models alone, but from engineering the systems around them
InCoinmonksbyMichael P. Di Fulvio·Jul 16IBM in the Triple Cities: The Company That Helped Build a RegionA personal and historical reflection on IBM’s power in Endicott, Binghamton, Johnson City, and Owego from the 1950s through the mid-1970s
OnComputing·Jul 11How the U.S. Census Legitimized ComputingNothing stimulates creativity quite like a good, existential administrative crisis.
Chaesang Jung·Jul 11What I Want to Be Doing at SeventyThe textbooks that shaped me were written by Hennessy and Patterson — and decades later, at Google, I watched them still going.
Chaesang Jung·Jul 11The Stopwatch That Took Two All-NightersBreadboards, wire-wrap, and parts haggled for at Yongsan market — a logic-design lab, and a stopwatch that came together at sunrise.
Chaesang Jung·Jul 11When Computers Barely Spoke KoreanTyping tutors, two-set vs three-set keyboards, and a pre-Unicode encoding war — memories of making Korean work on a computer.
Chaesang Jung·Jul 11All Exams Are Pattern MatchingMeeting AI in its second winter — an NLP lab, training data typed by hand, and a professor’s line: every exam is pattern matching.
Chaesang Jung·Jul 11You Never KnowGrad-school work on worst-case execution time — and how the same method jumped to energy, then got dwarfed by scale. You never know.
Chaesang Jung·Jul 3I Picked It for the NameAs a teenager I chose the field mostly because “Computer Engineering” sounded cooler than its old name: Electronic Calculator Engineering.
