<div dir="ltr">Have any of you come across an early machine at MIT called 'Ollie's Folly"? Family lore says that it was something my father, Oliver H. Straus, worked on in, probably, the early '50s. Straus was on the team that developed the Cesium Clock but what he really loved were computers. There were two Olivers on campus at the time, Oliver Straus and Oliver Selfridge. I didn't know my father very well and went on a pilgrimage to find out about him in the early '90s. When I met with Selfridge he didn't have much information except that my father was known as Ollie and Selfridge insisted on being called Oliver. I'm very curious whether there is anything more to find out about him.<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Liza</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 4:46 PM Guy Fedorkow <<a href="mailto:guy.fedorkow@gmail.com">guy.fedorkow@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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hi Jacob,<br>
did you look into graphics displays on the Whirlwind computer
built at MIT in the early 1950's? We have good evidence that there
were limited interactive graphics running there before 1952, but I
don't know how that fits into work by other researchers<br>
Thanks<br>
/guy<br>
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<div>This is exciting, thank you for sharing Dag! If I can I'd
like to also flag my own forthcoming book on the early history
of computer graphics from 1950-1980, with a focus on the
University of Utah program. It will be released in August 2021
from MIT Press: <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/image-objects" target="_blank">https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/image-objects</a></div>
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Hello friends,
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<div>Just a note about computer graphics: CG pioneer and
Pixar co-founder Alvy Ray Smith has completed an amazingly
comprehensive book on the origins and development of
computer graphics. It is in press right now with MIT Press
and is named, “A Biography of the the Pixel.” It will be
available in Sept 2021. I have a pre-press version and
it’s superb, its coverage of humankind’s expressiveness in
art ranging from the cave paintings of Altamira to
<i>Toy Story</i>.</div>
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<div>Read more at MIT Press here: <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/biography-pixel" target="_blank">https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/biography-pixel</a> </div>
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<div>To Infinity and Beyond!</div>
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<div>Computer History Museum</div>
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