Geeks Without Borders: Hackers Unite for Global Good

The Random Hacks of Kindness movement brings computer experts together to build software that could be used during natural disasters or other global crises.

Conservation and the Spirit World

The most intriguing session I attended at this year’s AAAS meeting was led by Stanford ecologist José Fragoso. In it, Fragoso described how he and his colleagues are working with indigenous groups in Guyana and Brazil to find out how cultural change affects the diversity of species in the surrounding forests and savannas.

Exhibit looks at the history of computers

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It is being hailed as the largest exhibition in the world on the history of computers. Reporter Corey Takahashi tells us the exhibit not only gives us the history of the hardware, but also of the languages. Download MP3

Slideshow: History of computers

Tech Podcast 265: “Internet’s” birthday, 40 years of modulated anarchy

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This week, we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the birth of the Internet. We hear from UCLA’s Leonard Kleinrock (pictured), and others who worked to send that first message between two computers, hundreds of miles apart. We get the international perspective from Chinese blogger and activist Isaac Mao. And we also hear about the ‘Net’s next step, Internationalized Domain Names.

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