SDMS - Spatial Data Management System - MIT 1980

William Donelson
William Donelson
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Published 2013-06-04
An updated version of the 1978 Master's Thesis by William Donelson, B.S. 1975, M.S. 1978 MIT.

This version created 1978-1980 with the assitance of Chris Schmandt, Joe Rice, Ben McCann,Steve Tufty and Rimas Ignaitis. Richard Bolt shown in chair.

Notes:
1. video mostly silent, but sections with audio do exist
2. audio track repaired by W. Donelson 2012

© MIT Media Lab 1980 under the direction of Prof Nicholas Negroponte
dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=807391
All Comments (11)
  • @gps9308
    Totally amazing. I really appreciate you sharing this.
  • @antao69
    Fascinating stuff! It's a blast working at the forefront of technology, no matter when.
  • @yokomitz
    Wow, "The Case of Immunity" of Columbo dubbed in Japanese at 10:18! Wonderful!
  • @sidmo2008
    Video slo-mo in 1975 is the most astonishing thing in this demo!
  • @VickiTrusselli
    So exciting to be in on the cutting edge of computers back in the day. I remember how excited I was creating animation on my Mac. 257 megabytes. Ha ha now my cell has 128 gigs.
  • @mikedelcaribe7422
    Thanks for sharing this video. Amazing that so many things that were shown way back then are now commonplace. The lab was the first time I had heard of a Simonides desktop.
  • @MojaveGeek
    Hey Bill, great to see this, and thanks for the credits! But you forgot Steve Tufty (he did some of the key maps I think) and Eric Hulteen did the voice control, though possibly not really implemented when we made this video.