Would Will Hunting use OS X? He might now:

TeX is a typesetting standard that, among other things, allows you to typeset complex math formulas. One flavour of Tex is LaTeX, for which LaTeXiT serves as a front-end on Mac OS X. Using LaTeXiT, one can drag and drop complex math formulas to a number of apps — Pages, Keynote and TextEdit, to name a few.

Spacewar! was one of the first video games and in 1972, Rolling Stone magazine sent Stewart Brand — 33 years old at the time — to document the early days of computing as entertainment. The photographs were taken by a young Annie Leibovitz (23). Play the original 1962 game code running on a PDP-1 emulator in your Java-enabled browser. [via]

Apple made the source code of Grand Central Dispatch available under an Apache open source license. One of the new technologies for concurrency added to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Grand Central is Apple’s attempt to help developers deal with the rise of multi-core. The open sourcing of Grand Central comes as something of a surprise, because it is a core technology in Snow Leopard, and could be seen to give Apple a competitive edge in the new world of multi-core… this is an exciting move, particularly for scientific developers. If Grand Central Dispatch does catch on, it could provide a genuine option for code parallelization on and off the Mac.

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Understanding computing history is very important because, if you look across the sweep of it from the 1940s to today, it’s much easier to see where we might go next.

Fascinating video of a speech given by Juan Enriquez. A must see for anyone with even a passing interest in the Singularity.

Extremely interesting research into the apparent benefits of drinking heavy water and eating specially formulated “iFoods”. Sign me up!