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Listening to "A History of Rome", I'd love to do something like this for computing.
Listening to "A History of Rome", I'd love to do something like this for computing.


== General Notes ==
Things to cover
Things to cover
* Babbage and Lovelace
* US Census machine
* US Census machine
* Turn of the century math
* Turn of the century math
* Early electro mechanical devices
** Boolean logic
** Hilbert Program
* Single purpose machines
* Electrical devices
** Switching
*** Relay
*** Vacuum tube
*** Transistor
** Memory
*** Punch card
*** Mercury delay line
*** Williams Tube
*** Magnetic memory
* Godel proof
* Godel proof
* Turing "On the Computability of Numbers"
* Turing "On the Computability of Numbers"
* Church Lambda calculus
* Church Lambda calculus
* ENIAC
* Von Neumann & Jonniac
* Von Neumann & Jonniac
* Claude Shannon and information theory
* Grace Hopper
* Cryptography
* Unix and C
* The Internet and the Web
Trends to Cover
* Mathematics of Information theory
* Development of electronics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing
== Posts ==
=== The first Computer ===
It's not easy to assign what the first computer was
* Babbage engine
* Z1
* Eniac
* UNIVAC

Latest revision as of 18:03, 24 October 2017

Listening to "A History of Rome", I'd love to do something like this for computing.

General Notes

Things to cover

  • Babbage and Lovelace
  • US Census machine
  • Turn of the century math
    • Boolean logic
    • Hilbert Program
  • Single purpose machines
  • Electrical devices
    • Switching
      • Relay
      • Vacuum tube
      • Transistor
    • Memory
      • Punch card
      • Mercury delay line
      • Williams Tube
      • Magnetic memory
  • Godel proof
  • Turing "On the Computability of Numbers"
  • Church Lambda calculus
  • ENIAC
  • Von Neumann & Jonniac
  • Claude Shannon and information theory
  • Grace Hopper
  • Cryptography
  • Unix and C
  • The Internet and the Web

Trends to Cover

  • Mathematics of Information theory
  • Development of electronics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing

Posts

The first Computer

It's not easy to assign what the first computer was

  • Babbage engine
  • Z1
  • Eniac
  • UNIVAC