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Software giant Microsoft today announced it would test its "Tiger" interactive TV software in Europe by early 1996 -- a several-city experiment well beyond the scope of its demo early next year in Seattle. The video server technology -- like similar highway efforts from Time Warner, Viacom, Bell Atlantic and others -- lets viewers retrieve programs, concerts and, for instance, watch a music video before buying CDs and concert tickets. TIME senior writer Philip Elmer-DeWitt says Microsoft's $8 billion capo, Bill Gates, is well positioned to repeat his software success in the next info revolution, and other giants want...
CS50 also teaches students how to use the Internet system, which was a drawing point for Ferrell. The Internet "gives you access to an incredible amount of information: computer programs, demo programs, the menu for dinner, the weather report," says Ferrell...
...Palo Alto Research Center in California (which put the ideas to work in a language called Smalltalk and a machine called the Alto). Levy re-creates in vivid detail the December 1979 "daylight raid," when the scrappy engineers from Apple, invited to see the Alto, walked into a Xerox demo room and walked out with something more valuable than Federal Reserve notes or gold bullion: a working paradigm for what a computer should...
While there was a certain degree of chicanery in the demo, improvements in technology have turned that magic into fact for collegiate hackers...
...just sent things [demo tapes] down there andkept in touch," Borchers said...