Edmund Phelps, the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics, is Director of the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University. Born in 1933, he spent his childhood in Chicago and, from ...

The story of Columbia University is one of tradition, innovation, and impact. For more than 270 years, Columbia alumni, ...

Rajiv Sethi is a Professor of Economics at Barnard College, Columbia University and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He was a 2020-21 Joy Foundation Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe ...

A conversation with Ana Paula Lavalle Arroyo, Senior Legal Adviser of Mexico's Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the Permanent Mission of Mexico to the UN Drawing from her experience representing Mexico ...

Synthetic biology, a newly-born research field, is already beginning to change the world with our ability to engineer entire organisms to solve real world problems. Come be part of this revolution ...

The primary effect of the Aral Sea desiccation has been the significant loss of water in the sea. The water level has dropped approximately 23 meters since the onset of its primary sources of water ...

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The HP-150 This early Intel 8088-based non-IBM compatible MS-DOS computer was produced by Hewlett Packard in 1983. Distinguishing features: It was the first computer to use a 3.5" rigid diskette.

Source: [1],p.323; click image to enlarge. The Hollerith Type 1 Tabulator, numeric only, 1906. After having automated the 1890 US census with his tabulating and associated machines (punch, sorter), ...

The nervous system is made up of two types of cells: neurons and glia.

The IBM Type 012 tabletop key punch (1925) was the first model capable of duplication; that is, automatically copying columns from one card to another. Left: What appears to be a Type 012 Electric ...

IBM 3270 terminal about 1980; click to enlarge. Photo: University of Heidelberg. The original IBM 3270 terminal, mid 1970s. Although it bears a superficial resemblence to regular ASCII "start/stop" ...