The hard drive turns 50 today, IBM introduced the first hard drive today back in 1956. Check out the timeline of the last 50 years. For more artifacts, check the Magnetic Disk Heritage Center.

We heard from Evans J.R. Revere, a senior foreign service officer with the State Department who is also a Cyrus Vance Fellow in Diplomatic Studies with the Council on Foreign Relations, at the luncheon hosted by the Japan-American Society of Dallas/Fort Worth. He provided very interesting perspectives on the North Korean problem from the US, China, Japan, and South Korean point of view.