Good Pictures is about the advice given to photographers—mostly amateurs—on the techniques they should use to improve their work. Of course, the advice is intimately tied to technological developments in photography as well as the desire of camera makers to sell new products.
Tag: history
Origins of SSIT: IEEE TAB Authorization of the Committee on Social Implications of Technology June 24, 1972
By terribookman on June 11th, 2022 in Social Implications of Technology
Book Review: Transforming Science and Sound
By Bill Liles on June 8th, 2020 in Book Reviews, Magazine Articles, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact
What was the place of acoustics within the discipline of physics in the period, and how should the transformations of the field of acoustics be located within the transformations of the field of physics more generally?
Book Review: A Maverick of Electrical Science
By Bill Liles on February 23rd, 2019 in Book Reviews, Magazine Articles, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact
Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925) is now considered a maverick of electrical science, but he could also be considered the founder of that subject.
Reintroducing Wiener: Channeling Norbert in the 21st Century
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
The arc of Norbert Wiener’s fascinating life became clear to us one day in the M.I.T. Institute Archives. In one… Read More
How Not to Network a Nation
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Book Reviews, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet. By Benjamin Peters. M.I.T. Press, 2016, 312 pages. Reviewed by Loren Graham. … Read More
America’s Assembly Line
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Book Reviews, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
By David E. Nye. Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press, 2013, 338 pages Reviewed by David Wunsch If I asked you to… Read More