Synopsis
Simon Ramo's concept of "polymorphic" computing is laid out in stop-motion animation, accompanied by acoustic guitar. The film anticipates parallel, distributed processing and the architecture of ARPANET and the Internet.
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- Running time
- 7 minutes
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★★★★ · The Narrator was Hungarian · torgman · 2011-10-25
Salzer arrived from Budapest, Hungry in the United States in 1940 and began a career as an upholsterer. He later took courses at Case Institute of Technology and learned about radar communications and pulse communications systems in the Army. The Army provided enough training and credits to allow Salzer to return to school and obtain his B.A., M.A., and ultimately his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Salzer started his Ph.D. work in 1948 and held a research assistant position at the Digital Computer Lab under the direction of Gordon Brown, Jay Forrester, and Bob…
★★★★ · Look! I'm doing several things at once! · Spuzz · 2012-05-25
Antiquated, but a CUTE antiquated film about polymorphics, aka teaching your computer to do several things at once! Until now, if you wanted your computer to just that, well, you'd have to buy a bigger computer! And, if you had several people wanting to do stuff all at once, well ferget it! But now, look what we've done, we've developed the technology for you to do just that! See us for details on our huge machine that will probably take up just one large room in your office! This is done, if you can believe it, using way simplified terms, blocks, cartoons and language, and turns out to be…