Programming History

Katherine knew it was wrong that African Americans didn't have the same rights as others - as wrong as 5+5=12. She knew it was wrong that people thought women could only be teachers or nurses - as wrong as 10-5=3. And she proved everyone wrong by zooming ahead of her classmates, starting college at 15, and eventually joining NASA, where her calculations helped pioneer America's first manned flight into space, its first manned orbit of Earth, and the world's first trip to the moon!

Clive Thompson’s Coders is a delightful place to begin to understand this vocation, which is both a profession and a way of life and which essentially didn’t exist little more than a generation ago, but now is considered just about the only safe bet we can make about what the future holds. Thompson takes us close to some of the great coders of our time and unpacks the surprising history of the field, beginning with the first great coders, who were women.

Nati 3.000 anni fa nell'antica Grecia e tornati in auge verso la fine del XIX secolo, i Giochi Olimpici sono diventati la competizione sportiva più popolare a livello mondiale. Dall'VIII secolo a.C. fino al IV secolo d.C., i giochi si svolsero ogni quattro anni a Olimpia, una città nell'ovest della penisola del Peloponneso, in onore del dio Zeus. I primi Giochi Olimpici dell'era moderna furono ospitati ad Atene nel 1896 e videro 280 atleti di 13 nazioni confrontarsi in 43 discipline diverse.

Much has been written about the battles that rage between software companies over market share. FoxTales is the story of one such battle, told from the perspective of a foot soldier. My perspective. When I started with Fox Software, it was a company of barely thirty people. It shared space in a small bank building on the edge of Ohio’s farm country. It was a quaint, family run business, and its product, FoxBASE+, was a niche player. The next four years brought many surprises: lawsuits, buyouts, off-the-wall management, and even a flying book or two. Things no college course could prepare ...

Ada Lovelace was the daughter of Lord Byron, a poet, and Anna Isabella Milbanke, a mathematician. Her parents separated when she was young, and her mother insisted on a logic-focused education, rejecting Byron's mad love of poetry. But Ada remained fascinated with her father and considered mathematics poetical science.

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Nato alle Hawaii come vera e propria filosofia di vita il surf ha cavalcato le onde dell’oceano per diffondersi a macchia d’olio in tutto il mondo. Esploso come contro-cultura negli Stati Uniti nel secondo dopoguerra il surf infatti ha attraversato la storia della società statunitense per diventare un fenomeno sportivo e culturale mondiale senza precedenti. Questo libro racconta la storia del surf così come la conosciamo oggi, ma anche le storie dei grandi protagonisti di questa disciplina: Eddie Aikau, Gerry Lopez, Mark Slater, Mickey Dora.

È il 19 agosto del 2008. C'è il sole a Pechino. Nello stadio olimpico a forma di nido si corre la quinta batteria dei 200 metri donne. La prima a tagliare il traguardo è la giamaicana Veronica Campbell Brown in 23"04. L'ultima è una ragazza di 17 anni, alta e magra, con i pantaloncini lunghi fino alle ginocchia, una fascia tergisudore sulla fronte e le scarpe regalatele da un'atleta della squadra sudanese. Chiude in 32"16.

Stadio Lenin, Mosca, 26 luglio 1980. Finale del salto in alto. In pedana due donne: la tedesca dell'Est Rosemarie Ackermann, prima donna al mondo a superare il "muro" dei due metri, già campionessa olimpica a Montrèal 1976 e Sara Simeoni, medaglia d'argento a Montreal, alla quale è "toccato" per ben due volte alzare l'asticella a 2,01 mt. Tutti gli esperti si attendono questo duello, il pallottoliere degli scontri diretti dice 6 a 2 per la Ackermann.