Speak & Spell: How a $25,000 Toy Project Taught Microchips to Talk
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1976, a small team at Texas Instruments led by Paul Breedlove began a side project with a bud...
8 Loka 22min
Sophia the Robot: Saudi Citizenship, Art Sales and the AI Backlash
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Sophia was activated on Valentine's Day in 2016 by Hong Kong-based Hanson Robotics, with a face ...
8 Loka 20min
Therac-25: The Software Bug That Turned a Cancer Machine Lethal
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1985, a 61-year-old woman at a clinic in Marietta, Georgia, lay down for routine radiation af...
8 Loka 25min
Seymour Cray: The Reclusive Genius Who Invented the Supercomputer
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Seymour Cray designed the fastest computers on Earth and unwound by digging a tunnel beneath his...
8 Loka 21min
Graphene: The Nobel-Winning Wonder Material Found With Scotch Tape
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Graphene is a sheet of carbon one atom thick, arranged in a hexagonal honeycomb. It is about 200...
8 Loka 26min
SETI@home: The Alien-Hunting Screensaver That Got People Fired
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On May 17, 1999, the Space Sciences Laboratory at UC Berkeley released a screensaver that let or...
8 Loka 23min
Roomba: From a Lego Prototype Called Dust Puppy to the Smithsonian
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1989, MIT engineer Joe Jones built a robotic vacuum out of Lego bricks and nicknamed it Dust ...
8 Loka 25min
Robert Noyce: The Pig Thief Who Co-Founded Intel and Shaped Silicon Valley
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the late 1940s, a Grinnell College student stole a 25-pound pig for a campus luau. The farm b...
8 Loka 21min
