anosta E-SPEAIT 2022 Blog

 Teletype® - or a teleprinter, or a teletypewriter was a device first developed in the 19 century to replace the telegraph. The use of a telegraph was problematic and cumbersome, as it required operators to be trained in the use of Morse code. These machines would be operated with a keyboard like typewriters, sending signals by copper wires across vast distances to be printed out as human-readable text on the other end. The word "teletype" comes from the name of the Teletype Corporation, a company that specialized in teletypewriters. The company was in business until 1974's antitrust lawsuit against its parent company - AT&T.  One of the things of note in teleprinters were control characters (or "format effectors") - characters that did not (and do not) represent written symbols, but are used to control  how written symbols are placed. NUL and DEL were introduced in the Baudot code in 1870, and the modified Murray code of 1901 also added CR and LF. Interesti...

1970-s: Combat drones Unmanned combat aerial vehicles or "combat drones" are a type of military aircraft that have no onboard human pilot. They are most commonly used for intelligence and drone strikes. Usually these vehicles are under real-time human control, though fully autonomous drones are being developed. Unlike the small drones that are sold commercially for recreational purposes, these machines can weigh anywhere from hundreds to thousands of kilograms. Smaller reconnaissance aerial vehicles can weigh as little as 1 kilogram, though these cannot technically be considered "combat drones". One has to use sophisticated detection systems to spot these drones - they are virtually invisible to civilians. Due to mistakes made by operators, people have begun to fear clear skies - the perfect conditions for deployment of combat drones. There is growing concern that this technology is making military conflict politically "cheaper" for major powers, as war is...