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Paper-and-pencil calculator
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Title: Paper-and-pencil cosmological calculator Authors: Sergey V. Pilipenko The paper-and-pencil calculator is a cosmological nomogram which allows to find relations between redshift, distance, age of the Universe, physical and angular sizes, luminosity and apparent magnitude for the s...
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Stellarics
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Title: A software package for stellar and solar inverse-Compton emission: Stellarics Authors: Elena Orlando, Andrew W. Strong We present our software to compute gamma-ray emission from inverse-Compton scattering by cosmic-ray leptons in the heliosphere, as well as in the photospheres of sta...
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The year 2038 problem
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The year 2038 problem may cause some computer software to fail at some point near the year 2038. The problem affects all software and systems that both store system time as a signed 32-bit integer, and interpret this number as the number of seconds since 00:00:00 UTC on Thursday, 1 January 1970. The fu...
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Brain computer virus
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Brain is the industry standard name for a computer virus that was released in its first form in January 1986, and is considered to be the first computer virus for MS-DOS. Read more
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Planetary and Lunar ephemerides
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Title: Planetary and Lunar ephemerides, INPOP10A Authors: A. Fienga, H. Manche, P. Kuchynka, J. Laskar, M. Gastineau The Planetary and Lunar ephemerides INPOP10a version has several improvements in the fitting process, the data sets used in the fit and in the general features of the solution. No...
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Punch cards
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Herman Hollerith was awarded a series of patents in 1889 for mechanical tabulating machines. These patents described both paper tape and rectangular cards as possible recording media. The card shown in U.S. Patent 395,781 of June 8 was preprinted with a template and had holes arranged close to the...
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Clouds
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Armchair Science: Bag and Tag Glowing Galactic Clouds A new galactic game launches today that lets citizen scientists identify the glowing clouds where future stars will be born. The online experience, called Clouds, is a new addition to the Milky Way Project, where everyone can help astronomers...
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PICACS
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Title: PICACS: a tool for self-consistent modelling of galaxy cluster scaling relations Authors: B. J. Maughan (HH WIlls Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol) In this paper, we introduce PICACS, a physically-motivated, internally consistent model of scaling relations between galaxy c...
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SMS messaging
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SMS messaging was used for the first time was on 3 December 1992, when Neil Papworth, a 22-year-old test engineer for Sema Group (now Airwide Solutions), used a personal computer to send the text message "Merry Christmas" via the Vodafone network to the phone of Richard Jarvis. Read more...
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PONG
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Pong (marketed as PONG) is one of the earliest arcade video games, and is a tennis sports game featuring simple two-dimensional graphics. While other arcade video games such as Computer Space came before it, Pong was one of the first video games to reach mainstream popularity. Read more
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SOAP-T
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Title: SOAP-T: A tool to study the light-curve and radial velocity of a system with a transiting planet and a rotating spotted star Authors: M. Oshagh, I. Boisse, G. Boué, M. Montalto, N. C. Santos, X. Bonfils, N. Haghighipour We present an improved version of SOAP (Boisse et al. 2012) named "SO...
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Astronomy and Computing Journal
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Title: Astronomy and Computing: a New Journal for the Astronomical Computing Community Authors: Alberto Accomazzi, Tamás Budavári, Christopher Fluke, Norman Gray, Robert G Mann, William O'Mullane, Andreas Wicenec, Michael Wise We introduce Astronomy and Computing, a new journal for the gro...
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Halo 4
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Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn - Part 2 (Live-Action Halo Series)
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Multics
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Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service) was an influential early time-sharing operating system. The project was started in 1964 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The last known running Multics installation was shut down on October 30, 2000, at the Canadian Department of National...
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Chess
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Houdini 3 - the world's strongest chess engine in the Fritz interface In 2009 Robert Houdart, a Belgian structural engineer working on nuclear power plants and astronomy, wiled away his time waiting for a telescope mirror by writing a chess program. To everyone's surprise it turned out to be the str...
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