Today in History – June 5, 1977 – Apple II goes on sale. Steve Wozniak designed the Apple II personal computer that was released in 1977, featuring a central processing unit (CPU), keyboard, floppy disk drive, and a $1,300 price tag. The Apple II launched the personal computer revolution. He left Apple in 1981 and [...]

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The Engineering Pathway profiles Weili Dai, Co-Founder of the Marvell Technology Group, Ltd and Vice President and General Manager of Communications and Consumer Business,  as our hero for Asian-Pacific Heritage month. A graduate of UC Berkeley’s Computer Science program, she is considered one of the most successful women entrepreneurs in the world. Newsweek named her [...]

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Today in History – May 28, 1936 – “Turing Machine” paper submitted, his first paper on decidability. Turing’s achievements at Cambridge had been on account of his work in probability theory. However, he had been working on the decidability questions since attending Max Newman‘s course on the foundations of mathematics. In 1936 he published “On [...]

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The Engineering Pathway profiles Weili Dai, Co-Founder of the Marvell Technology Group, Ltd and Vice President and General Manager of Communications and Consumer Business,  as our hero for Asian-Pacific Heritage month. A graduate of UC Berkeley’s Computer Science program, she is considered one of the most successful women entrepreneurs in the world. Newsweek named her [...]

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Today in History – May 18, 2004 – Founding of the National Center for Women in Information Technology (NCWIT). Alas women now only represent a small fraction of computer science graduates and are not fully represented in the world of information technology and computing. This is one reason I enthusiastically agreed to co-found and serve as [...]

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