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Charles Babbage Institute: EXHIBITS > Who Was Charles Babbage?
Information about Seymour Cray and photographs of the machines.
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Extractions: Smithsonian oral history interview, 1995 About Seymour Cray From 1950 to 1957, Cray held several positions with Engineering Research Associates (ERA) of St. Paul, Minnesota. At ERA, he worked on the development of the ERA 1101 scientific computer for the U.S. government. Later, he had design responsibility for a major portion of the ERA 1103, the first commercially successful scientific computer. While with ERA, Cray worked with computer technologies ranging from vacuum tubes and magnetic amplifiers to transistors. He inventeda number of technologies that were patented by the companies for which he worked; among the most significant are the Cray-1 vector register technology, the cooling technologies for the Cray-2 computer, the CDC 6600 freon-cooling system, and a magnetic amplifier for ERA. He also contributed to the Cray-1 cooling technology design. Cray was a founder of the Control Data Corporation in 1957 and was responsible for the design of that company's most successful large-scale computers, the CDC 1604, 6600, and 7600 systems. He served as a director for CDC from 1957 to 1965 and was senior vice president at the time of his departure in 1972, when he founded Cray Research to design and build the world's highest performance general-purpose supercomputers. His Cray-1 computer established a new standard in supercomputing upon its introduction in 1976. In 1981, he devoted himself full time to the Cray-2 project as an independent contractor for Cray Research, and the Cray-2, introduced in 1985, moved supercomputing forward yet again.
Charles Babbage Institute: EXHIBITS > Who Was Charles Babbage?
Introduction. The calculating engines of English mathematician charles babbage (17911871)are among the most celebrated icons in the prehistory of computing.
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Extractions: Introduction The calculating engines of English mathematician Charles Babbage (1791-1871) are among the most celebrated icons in the prehistory of computing. Babbage’s Difference Engine No.1 was the first successful automatic calculator and remains one of the finest examples of precision engineering of the time. Babbage is sometimes referred to as "father of computing." The Charles Babbage Foundation took his name to honor his intellectual contributions and their relation to modern computers. Biographical note Charles Babbage was born in London on December 26, 1791, the son of Benjamin Babbage, a London banker. As a youth Babbage was his own instructor in algebra, of which he was passionately fond, and was well read in the continental mathematics of his day. Upon entering Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1811, he found himself far in advance of his tutors in mathematics. Babbage co-founded the Analytical Society for promoting continental mathematics and reforming the mathematics of Newton then taught at the university. In his twenties Babbage worked as a mathematician, principally in the calculus of functions. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1816 and played a prominent part in the foundation of the Astronomical Society (later Royal Astronomical Society) in 1820. It was about this time that Babbage first acquired the interest in calculating machinery that became his consuming passion for the remainder of his life.
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Charles Babbage's First Difference Engine
Contains archival source material and graphics, together with a discussion of the Mathematics of the Engine.
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Charles Babbage From FOLDOC
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Babbage, Charles (1791-1871) -- From Eric Weisstein's World Of Scientific Biogra
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Extractions: This entry contributed by Margherita Barile English mathematician and inventor. Babbage was obsessed from his boyhood with the idea of an universal language, and he conceived his first mechanical calculator around 1812 while he was a student at the Trinity College in Cambridge, England. At that time, he was involved in research on differential and integral calculus as a co-founder of the new Analytical Society. Later, he would become Lucasian professor (1828) and contribute to establishing the Royal Astronomical Society (1820) and the London Statistical Society (1834). The project of Babbage's Difference Engine No. 1 was completed in 1822. Two improved versions followed in the next years, but were never realized. These devices, based on a system of toothed gears, could automatically compute arithmetical sequences of high order involving numbers having up to 5 digits. Babbage's (unachieved) masterpiece was the Analytical Engine, a much more sophisticated invention, which worked using punched cards, could perform any arithmetical operation, and was even able to print out the results. One of the main outcomes of Babbage's research was the conclusion that every game of skill could be played by a properly instructed automaton.
The Babbage Pages: Ada Lovelace
Read about this mathematician and scientist. Focuses on her work with scientist charles babbage.
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Extractions: Augusta Ada Byron was born on 10 December 1815. She was named after Augusta, Byron's half sister, who had been his mistress. After Byron had left for the Continent with a parting shot - 'When shall we three meet again?' - Ada was brought up by her mother. The lines from Childe Harold were very well known:- `Is thy face like thy mother's, my fair child! but with a hope.' and as Byron's daughter Ada acquired the romance that attached to everyone associated with that magnificent poete maudit. In 1833 Ada met Babbage and was fascinated with both him and his Engines. Later Ada became a competent student of mathematics, which was most unusual for a woman at the time. She translated a paper on Babbage's Engines by General Menabrea, later to be prime minister of the newly united Italy. Under Babbage's careful supervision Ada added extensive notes (c.f. Science and Reform, Selected Works of Charles Babbage
Inventor Charles Babbage
Fascinating facts about charles babbage inventor of the first mechanicalcomputing machine in the 1820s. charles babbage Fascinating
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Linick Collection Of Proceedings Of The Mark IV User Group
Details of the archiving of Evan Linick's collection of published proceedings of the Mark IV User Group (IV League) by the charles babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota.
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Extractions: Evan Linick, collector Proceedings of the Mark IV User Group, 1969-1979 CBI 130 1 cubic foot in 3 boxes Creator: Linick, Evan, collector By: Kevin D. Corbitt, December 1996 ACQUISITION: The proceedings were given to the Charles Babbage Institute by Evan Linick in 1996. Please cite the collection as follows: Evan Linick Collection of Proceedings of the Mark IV User Group (CBI 130), Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. The MARK IV User Group, officially "MARK IV User Group (IV League)," purpose was to advance effective use of the MARK IV System. The group's 1969 by-laws described the MARK IV System as "a proprietary software product (which included program, documentation, and system support) developed and owned by Informatics Inc." and a presentation outlines the MARK IV System more specifically as "a general purpose software package designed to aid file management activities." Members included Informatics and representatives from any MARK IV installation. (Proceedings of the MARK IV User Group: meeting V, Jan. 27-29, 1969, New Orleans, LA, 1969, p. 21; Proceedings of the MARK IV User Group: meeting VI, June 30-July 2, 1969, San Francisco, CA, 1969.) Consists entirely of published proceedings of most MARK IV User Group conferences held between 1969 and 1979.
Encyclopædia Britannica
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WEB SITE CHARLES BABBAGE
Carreras tÃ©cnicas y docentes, con informaciÃ³n sobre calendario de inscripciones y seminarios.
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Babbage, Charles (1791-1871)
babbage, charles. mathematician. england. babbage. Images. charles babbage'sgrave at Kensal Green Cemetery, Londen. Picture by Androom (11 Dec 1993).
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Extractions: Grave location: London: Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green Born in Devonshire as the son of the banker Benjamin Babbage. As a child he suffered ill health. The young Babbage clearly had a passion for mathematics and a disdlike for the classics. He was educated by private tutors and then at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he received his M.A. in 1817. In 1840 he visited Turin, where he discussed his work with mathematicians like Menabrea. Lady Ada Augusta Lovelace - Lord Byron's daughter - translated Menabrea's description of the analytical engine and extended it significantly by herself. She assisted Babbage on some of his projects and he was very fond of her.
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The author takes the user through a short tour of computer history including subjects such as advances in the 50's and 60's. Also includes photos of charles babbage and Herman Hollerith.
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Extractions: Download this paper in PDF format Note: Yes, a lot of this is from Groliers Encyclopaedia. Hey, I was young. I didn't know any better. Credit where credit is due. Also, this information is only current as of the early 1990's (1993, to be exact), and no I'm not planning to add more information anytime soon. Citing This Work You are welcome to use this document as a reference in creating your own paper or research work on the subject. Please don't just copy this paper verbatim and submit it as your own work, as I put a lot of time and effort into it. Plus, it's bad karma. If you would like to use this work, please use this citation in your bibliography: Meyers, Jeremy, "A Short History of the Computer" [Online] Available <http://www.softlord.com/comp/> <Date you accessed this page> Table of Contents: In The Beginning...
Babbage, Charles
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Howard Rheingold's | Tools For Thought
By Howard Rheingold. Online copy of well known 1985 book on the invention of modern computing; this chapter on Lady Ada Lovelace, charles babbage, Difference and Analytical Engines. Newer (c)2000 edition of the book is out, with followup interviews.
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Extractions: Tools for Thought by Howard Rheingold April, 2000: a revised edition of Tools for Thought is available from MIT Press , including a revised chapter with 1999 interviews of Doug Engelbart, Bob Taylor, Alan Kay, Brenda Laurel, and Avron Barr. The idea that people could use computers to amplify thought and communication, as tools for intellectual work and social activity, was not an invention of the mainstream computer industry or orthodox computer science, nor even homebrew computerists; their work was rooted in older, equally eccentric, equally visionary, work. You can't really guess where mind-amplifying technology is going unless you understand where it came from. - HLR Chapter One : The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet
Babbage, Charles. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001. babbage, charles. (bb´ j) (KEY) , 17921871, English mathematician and inventor.
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Charles Babbage From FOLDOC
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