Garry Kasparov, who lost to IBM's Deep Blue nearly 30 years ago, argues that despite legitimate AI risks, democratic societies should embrace a positive vision for artificial intelligence's transformative potential in medicine, transportation, and everyday life, rather than succumbing to apocalyptic rhetoric. He calls for coherent leadership to articulate AI's benefits as a national priority, similar to the moonshot case made for space exploration.
A web-based emulator for the IBM 1620 Model-2, a 1960s transistorized decimal computer designed for scientific and engineering applications. About 2,000 systems were produced between 1959 and 1970, featuring a two-address memory architecture and supporting software like SPS assembler and FORTRAN II. The project aims to emulate the Model 2 variant and recover historical software.
This is assembly code for an IBM System/360 mainframe computer, likely from the 1960s-70s. The code performs cryptographic operations, specifically implementing a block cipher or hash function using bit manipulation, rotation, and substitution operations on 32-bit registers.
Bukowski's poem juxtaposes the incompatibility frustrations of early personal computers—Apple, Commodore, IBM, Tandy—against the indifferent beauty of nature, using fragmented form to mirror system errors while critiquing capitalist lock-in strategies that trap ordinary users.
IBM announced it has successfully connected and cooled two modular cryogenic systems to below 15 millikelvin, a key milestone toward delivering IBM Quantum Starling in 2029, expected to be the world's first fault-tolerant quantum computer. The new architecture uses L-coupler technology to link quantum processors and enable scaling to hundreds of quantum chips capable of solving large-scale problems.
This May 1987 Microsoft Systems Journal interview with Gordon Letwin discusses the development of OS/2, a multitasking operating system created jointly by Microsoft and IBM. The project faced significant technical challenges managing the Intel 80286 chip's incompatible protected and real modes, requiring over 350,000 lines of code and 35 programmers to solve mode-switching problems.
Roberta Williams pioneered graphic adventure games, starting with Mystery House in 1980 and progressing through colorful titles like The Wizard and the Princess, Time Zone, and Dark Crystal before creating King's Quest with 3-D graphics. In this 1983 interview, she discusses her motivations for designing expansive, visually rich games and her role as Creative Director at Sierra-Online alongside her husband Ken.
Computer caches are small, fast memories that hold copies of data from larger, slower memory to improve performance. Modern CPUs contain similar structures called 'covert caches'—such as translation lookaside buffers, branch target buffers, and prefetcher tables—that hold derived or predictive data rather than faithful memory copies, and some have become security vulnerabilities exploitable by adversaries to extract secrets.
A 1987 Microsoft Systems Journal interview with Gordon Letwin, chief architect of OS/2, discusses the development of Microsoft's multitasking operating system for Intel 80286-based computers. The project, which involved over 350,000 lines of code and 35+ programmers, aimed to create an office automation OS supporting both protected and real modes while managing the technical challenges of mode switching and the complexities of joint development with IBM.
IBM announced the acquisition of HRL Laboratories, a quantum research institution jointly owned by Boeing and General Motors, to advance its quantum computing capabilities. HRL's expertise in silicon-spin qubit engineering and quantum materials will complement IBM's superconducting qubit technology and accelerate development of fault-tolerant quantum computers, quantum sensing, and quantum networking.
Office Open XML (OOXML) is a zipped XML-based file format developed by Microsoft for office documents, standardized by Ecma International as ECMA-376 and by ISO/IEC as ISO/IEC 29500. The standardization process was controversial, with critics arguing OOXML was unnecessary given the existing OpenDocument Format, and concerns raised about Microsoft's influence over the voting process. Microsoft provided patent covenants and added OOXML to its Open Specification Promise to address licensing concerns.
Article overview of encryption methods from simple ciphers to block ciphers. Covers Caesar cipher, Vigenère cipher, and introduces DES (Data Encryption Standard) created by IBM in the 1970s for protecting financial transactions and bank cards.
NASA and IBM developed an open-source AI foundation model pretrained on SomBench, a multimodal lunar dataset with nearly two million data bundles across 11 modalities, to help researchers analyze diverse lunar mission data. USRA contributed planetary science expertise through Dr. Rachel Slank. The model matched or outperformed comparison models on crater detection, irregular mare patch segmentation, and polar ice prospectivity tasks.
Anderon, an IBM company, finalized a $1 billion CHIPS award from the U.S. Department of Commerce to advance quantum wafer manufacturing capabilities at its Albany, New York foundry. The company has already begun production of quantum wafers and plans to expand to other quantum modalities, supported by IBM's additional $1 billion investment.
IBM Research proposes an abstraction layer for cryptography that separates algorithm choices from application code, similar to how filesystems and TCP/IP abstracted storage and networking complexity. The intent-based API uses 'scopes' to express cryptographic needs while allowing policy to determine which algorithms satisfy them, enabling systems to evolve without breaking applications.
MartyPC is a cycle-accurate emulator of early IBM PCs and compatibles for Windows, Linux, and macOS, designed to aid retro PC development with extensive debugging tools. The emulator achieves 99.9997% cycle-accuracy on the 8088 CPU through validation against real hardware and supports multiple systems including the IBM PC, XT, PCjr, and Tandy 1000.