Archive for June, 2012

1869, John Wesley Hyatt and Isaiah Hyatt received a U.S. patent for pyroxylin plastic, which they called “Improved Method of Making Solid Collodion” (No. 91,341). The process was slightly flammable, but was essential to the development of plastics.

In 1878 – Photographer Eadweard Muybridge used high-speed photography to capture a horse’s motion. The photos showed the horse with all four feet in the air during some parts of its stride. Stop-motion photography was born.
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In 1949 – Jay Forrester wrote down a proposal for core memory in his notebook. Core memory was the standard for computer memory until advances in semiconductors in the 1970s.

1822 – Charles Babbage announced his difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled “Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables”.

1941 – John Mauchly visited John Atanasoff in Iowa City to see his computer. The two computer pioneers later battled in court over who was the legal inventor of the electronic digital computer.

In 1951 – The U.S. Census Bureau officially put UNIVAC I into service calling it the world’s first commercial computer.

Jeremy Howard is president and chief scientist of Kaggle, a start-up which has used predictive modeling competitions to solve problems for NASA, Wikipedia, Ford and much more.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Tom Merritt

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Running time: 58:01

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

Verizon shared data plans reviewed, Facebook is dying, Antivirus is dead, and more.

Guest: Dan Patterson

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Running time: 48:17

In 1925 – Charles Jenkins publicly demonstrated synchronized transmission of silhouette pictures and sound, becoming the first person to demonstrate TV in the US.

In 1944 – Germany launched the first guided missile attack in history, sending V-1 rockets into London.

In 1983 – Pioneer 10 became the first human-made object to pass outside Pluto’s orbit and leave the central solar system.

Hosts: Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson

Scott and Tom share their predictions in this the triumphant finale of FourCast

Guests: Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson

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Running time: 1:01:44

Autopilot 12 – Lost

Lost is an American television series that originally aired on ABC from September 22, 2004 to May 23, 2010, consisting of six seasons. Lost is a sci-fi/drama series that follows the survivors of the crash of a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney and Los Angeles, on a mysterious tropical island somewhere in the South Pacific Ocean. The story is told in a heavily serialized manner. Episodes typically feature a primary storyline on the island, as well as a secondary storyline from another point in a character’s life.

Hosts: Brian Brushwood and Tom Merritt

No cable-free HBO Go, Dish defends commercial skipping, Intel planning TV platform, and more

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Running time: 1:15:33

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

Why dual core doesn’t matter for mobile, Swordfighting games get real, a bunch of Apple stuff, and more.

Guest: Nicole Carrico

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Running time: 50:11