Saturday, October 4, 2008

My Microprocessor Museum

From Google:
Intel Education. "Inside the Manufacturing Process; how chips are made." Intel Corporation. Accessed: 4 Oct 2008. http://www.intel.com/education/makingchips/index.htm

From Harper's Magazine Archives:
Turner, Frederick W. "Escape From Modernism: technology and the future of the imagination".
Harper's Magazine. November 1984. http://harpers.org/archive/1984/11/0025490

From EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier:
"Computers and Telecommunications." World Almanac & Book of Facts. EBSCOhost. 4 Oct 2008. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=24123414&site=ehost-live

From EBSCOhost Historical Abstracts:
Zatlin, Jonathan R. "Out of Sight: industrial espionage, ocular authority, and east german communism, 1965-1989." Contemporary European History. 2008 17(1). EBSCOhost. 4 Oct 2008. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hia&AN=H800041768.01&site=ehost-live


--Nick Greene

3 comments:

ThingTheory said...

Hey Nick,
I dunno if you've looked at this stuff or not, but there's a whole subculture of chip art among chip designers:

http://www.chipworks.com/gallery1.aspx

ThingTheory said...

Whoops, forgot to add, that last comment was from Sam Dean.

ThingTheory said...

there seems to be a recurring microprocessor motif in blockbuster hollywood films.. iron man, the departed, and others i can't remember (dark knight?) all use the microprocessor as this mysterious and tiny bagillion-dollar commodity that's all tied up in the secret workings of the transnational economy and the possibility of a. the end of the world or b. having everyone's cell phone mind-control its user or blow up or something.

check it out.


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