Author: sgolson

  • 2023

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    Winter Sky November 18, 2018 Halibut Point State Park, Rockport, Massachusetts Nikon D500, 10mm, 30 sec at f/3.5, ISO 6400 The font used for the card and envelope is Concourse by Matthew Butterick.

  • 2022

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    Four planets align at sunrise behind Nubble Lighthouse in Cape Neddick, Maine. Jupiter and bright Venus are just to the left of the lighthouse. In the center is Mars, with Saturn at upper right. The lighthouse is illuminated blue for Autism Awareness Month. Hold your mouse cursor over the image to reveal annotations. Nubble Light…

  • Portland Retro Gaming Expo 2022

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    The Mysteries Of Ms. Pac-Man Here’s the description from the PRGE website: Join some of the team who helped create Ms. Pac-Man in this panel discussion. Hear the weird and unusual tales of video game’s First Lady, Ms. Pac-Man, celebrating her 40th birthday! Wild stories about lawsuits with Atari, the Chicago connection, Crazy Otto, and…

  • 2021

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    A solar eclipse occurs when the moon casts its shadow upon the earth. During totality the sun’s corona becomes visible as a white halo around the black disk of the moon. A wide-angle lens allows the camera to capture the grassy foreground, sunset colors on the horizon, and the eclipsed sun overhead. Wyoming Eclipse /…

  • History of Programming Languages Conference (HOPL IV) 2021

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    Verilog HDL and its ancestors and descendants by Peter Flake, Phil Moorby, Steve Golson, Arturo Salz, and Simon Davidmann. Presented at The Fourth ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Language Conference (HOPL IV), June 20–22, 2021. Published in Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, Vol. 4, No. HOPL, Article 87, June 2020, 90 pages. This…

  • 2020

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    Stars use nuclear fusion to create light, which then travels for thousands of years to reach Earth. On the other hand, fireflies use chemical reactions to create their flashing lights, in hopes of attracting a nearby mate. Many different sources combine to brighten the meadow on a summer evening. Fireflies and Starlight Taken June 26,…

  • 2019

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    A long exposure under dark skies reveals the delicate beauty of our Milky Way galaxy. The tiny smudge at top right is our neighbor the Andromeda Galaxy, a spiral galaxy containing about one trillion stars. This is the furthest object visible with the naked eye—light takes about 2.5 million years to travel from the stars…

  • RetroWorld Expo 2019

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    Ms. Pac-Man, Food Fight, Quantum, and the Rest: Arcade Game Design at GCC with Steve Golson Fun recollections from the game development days at General Computer. Here are my slides. Many thanks to my good friends at ACAM for inviting me to present this talk.

  • 2018

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    A double rainbow arches over cloud-hidden Snæfellsjökull in Iceland. This glacier rests atop the extinct stratovolcano Snæfell and is perhaps best known from the Jules Verne novel Journey to the Center of the Earth in which the characters descend through the ice cap and deep into the earth. Snæfell’s last known eruption occurred about 1800…

  • NH High Tech Council’s Entrepreneur of the Year Awards 2018

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    Video Games Then and Now: An Entrepreneuring Journey by Steve Golson I was honored to be keynote speaker at the New Hampshire High Tech Council 2018 Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. Matt Albuquerque was the well-deserved winner this year. And a special Lifetime Achievement award was given to the great Ralph Baer. It was a wonderful…