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April 29, 2012
What's in a Name? (Part 1)
The associations we attach to labels, and the assumptions they can lead to.
June 23, 2011
Did My Brother Invent E-Mail With Tom Van Vleck? (Part Five)
An interview with a pioneer of computer science, some speculation regarding the early hackers, and the series concludes.
June 22, 2011
Did My Brother Invent E-Mail With Tom Van Vleck? (Part Four)
An interview with one of the pioneers of time-sharing systems, as the e-mail series continues.
June 21, 2011
Did My Brother Invent E-Mail With Tom Van Vleck? (Part Three)
The author follows the origins-of-e-mail trail to the archives at MIT, and to some tragic family history.
June 20, 2011
Did My Brother Invent E-Mail With Tom Van Vleck? (Part Two)
How e-mails were sent in 1965 - and how you can simulate that experience now.
June 19, 2011
Did My Brother Invent E-Mail With Tom Van Vleck? (Part One)
A series in which family history dovetails with the invention of e-mail begins with a look at the computer-programming revolution at MIT in the 1960s.
March 10, 2011
The Ashtray: This Contest of Interpretation (Part 5)
The series on incommensurability concludes with a trip down the minefield of memory lane: a return to Princeton.
March 9, 2011
The Ashtray: The Author of the 'Quixote' (Part 4)
The series on incommensurability continues with 'The Existentialist's Nightmare' and the Humpty Dumpty Theory of Meaning.
March 8, 2011
The Ashtray: Hippasus of Metapontum (Part 3)
A third installment, in which it turns out that the confused postmodern term 'incommensurability' is really about intolerance.
March 7, 2011
The Ashtray: Shifting Paradigms (Part 2)
In part two of the series, an exploration of whether language helps us uncover the world, or obscure it.
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