Photo of an airplane simulator running on the Brown University Graphics System (BUGS). The Vector General was the graphic display component of the system.
Photo of Alan Brown using the Hypertext Editing System (HES) on the IBM 2250 display. HES was the first generation of hypertext editing systems developed …
The paper "Computer Architecture and Instruction Set Design" by Paul Anagnostopoulos, Marty Michel, Gary Sockut, George Stabler, and Andy van Dam was published in the …
Photo of Prof. Andy van Dam signing copies of his book "Computer Graphics: Principles and Practices," coauthored with James Foley, Steven Feiner, and John Hughes. …
In 2018, Andy van Dam taught his last session of CSCI 1230 Introduction to Computer Graphics (formerly CS 123), believed to be the world's longest-running …
Scan of an article titled "Exxon contributes $64G for new learning-retrieval system," published in the "Brown Daily Herald" on December 13, 1973. The article discusses …
Scan of the article "One Giant Step for Educational Computing." This article describes the Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS) project called Intermedia. …
Scan of "The Best Homework Ever?," an article by mathematics Prof. Tom Banchoff in the December 1996 issue of the "Brown Alumni Monthly." The article …
Scan of "The Brown Graphics Facility," an amusing overview of the hardware facilities available to Brown computer graphics researchers in 1968. The overview was prepared …
Scan of "The Brown University Graphics Group," an article in the "Brown University Computing Review," vol. 2, no. 1. This article is by George Stabler …
PDF of Hal Webber's story "Rise from the Ashes," about the electrical destruction and subsequent reconstruction of the Meta 4A and B computers. These machines …
Scan of "Doctor Memory: An Eidetic Memory System." This facility was a component of the Brown University Graphics System (BUGS) that allowed users to maintain …
