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Google Early Days with John Looney Holiday Repeat

Originally posted on 16 June 2017. John Looney spent more than 10 years at Google. He started with infrastructure, and was part of the team that migrated Google File System to Colossus,

Information Theory with Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman

We write code in a language that looks like English. Whether it is JavaScript, Fortran, or assembly language, that code is an abstraction on top of layers of intermediate languages,

Computer Logic with Chris Dixon

The history of computing can be thought of as a series of ideas rather than objects. From Aristotle’s formalization of the syllogism, to Alan Turing’s model for an all-purpose

Google Early Days with John Looney

John Looney spent more than 10 years at Google. He started with infrastructure, and was part of the team that migrated Google File System to Colossus, the successor to GFS. Imagine

Microsoft History with Richard Campbell

Microsoft’s past is full of stories. It’s early period of corporate domination in the 1990s was followed by a period of government antitrust scrutiny, and a period of unsure product