By James Buchan 9/17/01 12:00am

Nice Guy Behind the Net Dreamt of Happy Digital Age

The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal, by M. Mitchell Waldrop. Viking, 528 pages, $27.95.

J.C.R. who?

We all know something of computing history, of the mathematical philosophers John von Neumann and Alan Turing, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Digital Equipment Corporation, the Pentagon in the 1960′s, Xerox PARC, Read More

By Hilton Kramer 1/31/00 12:00am

Video Junk Is On Its Way to the Whitney Biennial

Two months hence, we shall be treated to yet another of the Whitney Museum’s 2000 Biennial exhibitions of contemporary American art–the first, by the way, to be mounted during Maxwell Anderson’s tenure as the Whitney’s director. What can we expect this time around from a show that, in some art circles, has become the most Read More