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Deep learning only took a few years to make the leap from another theoretical piece of future-tech to a very real tool that's…
Vivienne Sze| March 16, 2023
Although far ahead of his time, in the German- and English-speaking countries, Torres Quevedo has been largely forgotten.
Herbert Bruderer From BLOG@CACM | March 7, 2022 at 10:56 AM
The story of Viennese engineer Curt Herzstark and the world's smallest mechanical calculating machine, the Curta.
Herbert Bruderer From BLOG@CACM | January 24, 2022 at 11:42 AM
As far as we know, only three or four original specimens of the Roman hand abacus have survived.
Herbert Bruderer From BLOG@CACM | December 1, 2021 at 09:05 AM
Up to the second half of the 19th century —with the exception of the industrial power Great Britain—the protection of inventions was inadequate and strongly disputed...Herbert Bruderer From BLOG@CACM | November 8, 2021 at 09:54 AM
Until the middle of the 20th century, computers were in fact humans who performed calculations.
Herbert Bruderer From BLOG@CACM | October 7, 2021 at 09:20 AM
Napier's multiplication and division rods, deriving from the basic multiplication table, simplify calculations considerably.
Herbert Bruderer From BLOG@CACM | August 16, 2021 at 11:12 AM
Milestones in the history of computing from the Swiss National Supercomputing Center, Lugano.
Herbert Bruderer From BLOG@CACM | June 14, 2021 at 12:20 PM
The work is an extremely instructive, rich history of calculating technology. It also includes the analog world and automata, and is written in Italian.
Herbert Bruderer From BLOG@CACM | June 1, 2021 at 11:21 AM
Babbage wanted to control his analytical engine, regarded as the ancestor of the modern-day computer, with punched cards.
Herbert Bruderer From BLOG@CACM | May 7, 2021 at 11:28 AM
The design of today's electronic computers is usually not very appealing, in contrast to magnificent mechanical calculating machines from earlier times.
Herbert Bruderer From BLOG@CACM | April 8, 2021 at 10:24 AM
Computer scientist Konrad Zuse created the world's first programmable computer, the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3.
Herbert Bruderer From BLOG@CACM | December 23, 2020 at 11:44 AM
A rare find: the user manual of the oldest surviving computer in the world, the Zuse Z4 relay machine (1945).
Herbert Bruderer From BLOG@CACM | September 21, 2020 at 10:04 AM