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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 | * Babbage and Lovelace | ||
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** Boolean logic | ** Boolean logic | ||
** Hilbert Program | ** 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" | ||
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* Cryptography | * Cryptography | ||
* Unix and C | * Unix and C | ||
* The Internet and the Web | |||
Trends to Cover | Trends to Cover | ||
* Mathematics of Information theory | * Mathematics of Information theory | ||
* Development of electronics | * 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
- Switching
- 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