Wps.com is World Power System in Bethesda, Maryland.
Title
World Power Systems // Tom Jennings
Description
While I find the idea of writing about myself a little odd, what was once crass and embarrassing is now modern and assumed, like the wearing of underpants over your clothes.
I am an artist with a background in technology. My main strength is synthesis -- problem-solving across multiple discipline boundaries. Computers, software, and electronics since 1977; computer networking since 1984, internet since 1992, basic machine-shop skills, are now all applied to my artwork.
Believe it or not, nearly everyone in ye olden dayes believed that computers were for calculating numbers. (And as recently as 1975 a coworker told me that microcomputers of that time (6800, 8080) weren't really computers because they were only 8-bits wide. I had no answer for him then.) A very few people knew better, basically, Alan Turing and maybe John von Neumann Turing really got it, in 1936 writing that mathematical computing was merely a subset of fiddling arbitrary symbols within physical machines.
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English
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