Episode Notes

• American museum of natural history in Manhattan
• Ham radio operators
• QST magazines
• Vacuum tube
• IBM 650/620 computers
• Joel Moses at Columbia
• Drum memory
• Biquinary encoding
• IBM 709 Vacuum tubes computer
• Marvin Minsky
• Claude Shannon
• IPL V interpreter by Carnegie Mellon
• Bill Gosper
• Lisp 1.5 programmer's manual
• PDP-6
• MacLisp
• Macsyma, symbolic manipulation software
• Compacting garbage collector by Minsky
• Massachusetts watchmakers association
• George Daniels and the co-axial escapement
• Analog circuit design
• Synthetic Biology making creatures "to order".
• Tom Knight synthetic biologist and former student
• Formal specification of software