Tied Up Today

This week marks 38 years since Microsoft introduced Windows 1.0 (on 20 November 1985), the first graphical user interface designed for IBM p...

On this date 738 years ago (1284), the "Pied Piper" lured 130 children out of Hamelin, Germany, because the town refused to pay hi...

Today (26 April) is National Richter Scale Day, on the birthday of Charles F. Richter (1900-1985) who developed the standard measurement for...

Fifty years ago today, the incident reported below became the first successful transmission between two computer systems. ARPANET was among ...

Happy Birthday, public World Wide Web! On 23 August (tomorrow) 1991, (Sir) Tim Berners-Lee released the first "browser" for the W...

My calendar shows 27 April 1981 as the date for the introduction of the computer mouse. What's true is that Xerox PARC marketed a person...

On this date in 1981, Xerox PARC introduced the computer "mouse," a handheld device cabled to a personal computer, whose movements...

Needed a reason to wear this tie again (last worn in October 2012): Today is EKU's Employee Recognition Luncheon, showing the university...

43 years ago today . . . I was in 10th grade at Liberty High School, Richard Nixon was POTUS, and the very first computer-to-computer commun...

It is now VERY traditional for us to upgrade the EKU Blackboard system on the second Tuesday in August every year. Reason? Summer classes en...

This was our day to lead current Model Lab teachers and EKU new faculty into the mysteries of Blackboard . . . four workshops in all!

Today the IT people get their chance to "orient" new faculty at EKU. So I'm looking very official with my name badge. The tie ...