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Wilmington, North Carolina once had a thriving Black middle class and an elected interracial government. In 1898 white supremacists used violence to overthrow that government, kill Black residents and drive many others from the city.
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The Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) is a student group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) that helps students access computing resources and use them effectively.
SIPB was founded in 1969 by Bob Frankston, Gary Gut, David Burmaster, and Ed Fox.[1][2][3] At the time, computers in universities were still expensive resources reserved for funded research projects. Through an arrangement with the MIT administration, SIPB administered student accounts on university-owned computers. This allowed students access to MIT's timeshared computers when computers otherwise cost millions of dollars and were as big as an entire room.[3]
In 1983, MIT launched Project Athena, an initiative to create a distributed computing system for educational use.[4] SIPB was instrumental in the creation of Project Athena[2] and helped to provide MIT students with access to computing resources for independent projects.[4] Project Athena led to several important Unix technologies such as X11, instant messaging, and network filesystems.
SIPB set up a Web server at www.mit.edu in 1993, when the number of public web servers was roughly 100 and long before university Web sites became common. When MIT finally did set up an official website, it was at web.mit.edu.
SIPB has been instrumental for funding technical software projects that benefit the MIT community. These have included:[5]
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The Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) is a student group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) that helps students access computing resources and use them effectively.
Information processes and technology (IPT) is the study of information systems and the processes and technology involved in them. IPT is also a subject offered to senior high school students in Australia in university entrance exams such as the HSC in New South Wales. It focuses on giving the student an understanding of information technology, information processes and the skills to create information systems and some basic programming skills. Some of the social and ethical issues of computer systems may also be included in the course of the subject. In New South Wales, IPT is separated into the preliminary (year 11) and HSC (year 12) courses. A prerequisite for the HSC course is successful completion of the preliminary course. In June 2009 the course from 2010 to 2018 was detailed in the NSW Board of Studies syllabus, which was renamed to the New South Wales Education Standards Authority (NESA) from 2019. IPT is one of the HSC courses which may be accelerated – students in some schools have the option of completing it in year 10. In Queensland, the information processing and technology course is defined in a Queensland Studies Authority document.
The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) is a global organisation for researchers and professionals working in the field of computing to conduct research, develop standards and promote information sharing. Established in 1960 under the auspices of UNESCO, IFIP is recognised by the United Nations and links some 50 national and international societies and academies of science with a total membership of over half a million professionals. IFIP is based in Laxenburg, Austria, and is an international, non-governmental organisation that operates on a non-profit basis.
The MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) is an interdisciplinary research laboratory of MIT, working on research in the areas of communications, control, and signal processing combining faculty from the School of Engineering (including the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics), the Department of Mathematics and the MIT Sloan School of Management. The lab is located in the Dreyfoos Tower of the Stata Center and shares some research duties with MIT's Lincoln Laboratory and the independent Draper Laboratory. The laboratory was founded in 1940 as the Servomechanisms Laboratory (servo lab). At the time it was a center for research into automated control systems, including those used for automatic gun laying systems. This expertise led to work in the emerging radar field where the lab was instrumental in introducing automatic radar tracking systems used in the SCR-584 radar. In the post-war era the lab focused more on electronic systems as opposed to mechanical servos, including the use of computers, and this led to it becoming the Electronic Systems Laboratory (ESL) in 1959. This, in turn, led to the lab working on systems to collect information from widespread sensors and combine in, and presenting that information for command decisions. This led to the current name being adopted in 1978.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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