by Paul Spector | Jun 14, 2021 | Technological Innovation
I like to recycle. As someone who hates to waste things, the idea of reusing materials is appealing. Recycling is good for the environment and the recycling industry has created jobs, so it is good for the economy too. But recycling can be challenging. You really have...
by Paul Spector | May 16, 2021 | Technological Innovation
When I first started using computers, the mainframe was the only game in town. Computing was centralized at my university with everyone, faculty, students, and administration sharing the same machine. It would often get bogged down with too many requests, meaning...
by Paul Spector | Dec 7, 2020 | Technological Innovation
When I was in school the teachers took us on a field trip of the local newspaper plant. What I remember is how they assembled the moveable type to print the pages. The typesetter used a mechanical machine to put the individual letters in a frame, so many letters and...
by Paul Spector | Nov 14, 2020 | Technological Innovation
My grandfather was a contemporary of Thomas Edison. He never met Edison, but while working as a chemist in New York City early in the twentieth century, he met some of Edison’s employees and they talked about technology. My grandfather used to tell me that all the...
by Paul Spector | Oct 17, 2020 | Technological Innovation
I cut my computing teeth on an IBM 360 mainframe in the mid 1970s. I recall countless hours in the university computer center submitting punch card decks and waiting, sometimes hours, for the printed output. The first computer I owned was a Commodore 64, another...
by Steven Spector | Jan 16, 2020 | Harm Reduction-Mental Health, Information Security, Technological Innovation
What is an IMSI Catcher? An international mobile subscriber identity-catcher, or IMSI-catcher is a device used for mobile phone surveillance.They are also often referred to as a Stingray or Stingray Suveillance device. It serves as a MITM (Man in the Middle) attack by...
