D_4_10 — Yonaguni Formation: Japan's Submerged Stone Controversy

The Yonaguni Formation (also called the "Yonaguni Monument" or "Yonaguni Submarine Ruins") is a submerged rock structure located off the southern coast of Yonaguni Island, the westernmost of Japan's Ryukyu Islands (24°26

D_4_00 — Submerged Underground: Subfolder Summary

ZD_3_00 — Systems Architecture: Subfolder Summary

ZD_3_02 — Computer Architecture and Von Neumann Model

Computer architecture concerns the design of digital computers — the organizational structure, functional behavior, and implementation of computing systems from logic gates to complete processors. The dominant paradigm s

ZD_3_04 — Operating Systems and Concurrency

Operating systems (OS) — the software layer managing hardware resources and providing abstractions for applications — are among the most complex software artifacts ever built. They manage process scheduling (deciding whi

ZD_3_14 — Memory and Storage Systems: From RAM to Distributed Databases

Memory and storage systems form the foundation of all computing — providing the physical mechanisms for storing and retrieving data, from the fastest, most expensive registers and caches that serve the processor's immedi

ZD_3_07 — Parallel Computing and GPU Programming

Parallel computing — executing multiple computations simultaneously — has become the dominant paradigm for performance growth since single-core clock speeds plateaued (~2005). Flynn's taxonomy (1966) classifies computer

ZD_3_13 — Cloud Computing: Virtualization, Services, and Distributed Infrastructure

Cloud computing is the delivery of computing resources — servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence — over the Internet ("the cloud") on a pay-as-you-go basis, transforming computing f

ZD_5_00 — Digital Culture Tools: Subfolder Summary

N_4_13 — CIA MKUltra: Declassified Mind Control Programs

MKUltra (also rendered MKULTRA or MK-ULTRA) was a covert CIA program of illegal human experimentation running from 1953 to 1973, authorized by Director Allen Dulles and overseen by chemist Sidney Gottlieb of the Technica

S_1_19 — Neuromorphic Computing

Neuromorphic computing — the design of hardware and software systems inspired by the architecture and dynamics of biological neural networks — seeks to overcome the limitations of traditional von Neumann computing (seque

I_0_00 — UAP Disclosure: Section Summary

I_2_06 — Soviet and Russian UAP Programs

The Soviet Union maintained a long and largely secret institutional engagement with unidentified aerial phenomena, running parallel to but independently of American programs. The earliest formal effort was the Stolyarov