Among a smattering of collectibles on view is a prescient green flyer suggesting that men make use of newly hatched digital technology and "cruise by gay computer" (the lexicon of online dating had obviously yet to emerge): "Forget standing on street corners being harassed by the authorities searching through smoky bars.
In theory, nearly everyone supported the idea of modernizing Bronxville's venerable school, where 1,480 students, ages 5 to 18, squeezed through common hallways, wrote papers in an outdated library and learned biology in laboratories built before the word "computer" entered the lexicon.
The Korean artist Kwon Ki-soo uses a computer-like graphic lexicon characterized by pared-down parameters with his artistic alter-ego, "Dongguri" — a black-and-white line-drawn figure with a permanent grin that roams across simplified, colorful traditional Korean landscapes.
The text is derived from a computer-driven sentence-generator using rules and lexicon written by the artist.
The English lexicon now includes vocabulary based on computers and the Internet landscape, like Google [ 1] and tweet [ 2], as well as terms more familiar in bioinformatics and computational space, like cloud computing [ 2] and BitTorrent [ 1].
Until 1992, when Lexicon came up with the name Pentium for a computer chip made by Intel Corporation, microprocessors were identified by number, and for a long time were considered so fungible that manufacturers would share design specifications.
Nolan Gasser was the primary shaper of the lexicon that could reconcile Westergren's genome metaphor with something a computer could evaluate.
In the nineteen-sixties, the term seems to have migrated from the M.I.T. context to computer enthusiasts in general, and, in time, became an essential part of their lexicon.
"What happened over time was that more and more stuff was moved into the lexicon, was listed there, and that sort of paralleled developments in the computer industry of storage getting cheaper," he said.
The dynamic lexicon changes the way we look at problems ranging from human-computer interaction to logic itself, but it also has an application in the political realm.
