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Revision as of 17:55, 24 October 2017
Listening to "A History of Rome", I'd love to do something like this for computing.
Things to cover
- Babbage and Lovelace
- US Census machine
- Turn of the century math
- Boolean logic
- Hilbert Program
- Early electro mechanical devices
- 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
Trends to Cover
- Mathematics of Information theory
- Development of electronics