Public Key Cryptography - where would we be without this. Actually all of those are classics.
Nice! On Sun, 9 Aug 2020 at 3:50 pm, Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com> wrote: > I couldn't face any more code today, so I scanned the covers and > "interesting" article pages of my 1970s issues of Scientific American > magazine. This page > <http://www.orthogonal.com.au/gallery/scientific_american_articles.htm> > has thumbnails of the pages which anyone in a lockdown panic mind find > soothing. > > May 1975 Microcomputers - So those things weren't just a passing fad! > May 1975 Randomness > Apr 1977 Computer Algorithms - By Donald Knuth, his first volume of TAOCP > must have been out by then. > Aug 1977 A new kind of cipher - Martin Gardner reveals RSA to the world > with a $100 challenge. > Aug 1979 Public Key Cryptography - Two years later the algorithm is > analysed. > Dec 1979 Programming Languages - It's quaint reading now, and Pascal is > the way of the future. > > There's some non-IT stuff as well into the 1980s: > > Original articles on the game of Life. > The geometry of Chopin's music. > Carl Sagan on SETI. > Fractal music. > Gödel, Escher and Bach book announcement. > Imaginary numbers. > Rubik's cube. > Galois and the 5th degree equation. > > *Greg Keogh* > -- Michael Ridland co-CEO XAM Consulting xam-consulting.com
