As an engineer, I've always been interested in how things work. Here I reflect on how I got that way and what I've done to propagate the learning tradition.
Sputnik Childhood
science fair
a shop of my own
amazing radio
apollo
Hacker Culture
welcoming kids to computing
something out of nothing
calculators
computer as communicator
arpanet
computer graphics
system time
Design for Community
king of procsy macros
why throw files away?
yearning to write? start reading
patterns
Let Engineers Work
hypertext
thompson & richie on unix contributions
what's wrong with pl/1 and ada?
what's wrong with the 432?
what's wrong with planning?