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  • Sue Lange looks at Steampunk & The Singularity: "Science fiction writers, apparently tired of using neural networks and transistors as fodder, latched onto Charles Babbage's idea, creating a new arena based on old materials."

    SF Tidbits for 7/20/09 2009

  • Many of Dr. Babbage's students have told me that he is an outstanding and inspiring teacher.

    Don McNay: Hitting it Big As an Author Don McNay 2011

  • The Computing gallery in the Science Museum has some great objects - Babbage's Analytical Engine and the Difference Engine built by the Science Museum according to Babbage's original specifications (and half ofBabbage's brain in a jar).

    Archive 2009-03-01 Mia 2009

  • The two corresponded on mathematics, logic and other topics, and, in the process of writing a description of Babbage's proposed "Analytical Engine" created the very first computer program.

    Ada Lovelace, Calculating and Fighting Crime Peggy 2009

  • Babbage's microprogram mechanism, from Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1838, Bromley, Allan G., in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 20, No. 4, 1998.

    Babbage-Boole Digital Arithmetical and Logical Mill: Part 2 « The Half-Baked Maker 2009

  • The Computing gallery in the Science Museum has some great objects - Babbage's Analytical Engine and the Difference Engine built by the Science Museum according to Babbage's original specifications (and half ofBabbage's brain in a jar).

    Ada Lovelace Day at the Science Museum Mia 2009

  • After Babbage came a mathematical assistant of his, Babbage's eldest son, Herschel, and possibly Babbage's two younger sons.

    Ada Lovelace 2009

  • Ada Lovelace figures in the history of the Calculating Engines as Babbage's interpretress, his ` fairy lady '.

    Ada Lovelace 2009

  • Sue Lange looks at Steampunk & The Singularity: "Science fiction writers, apparently tired of using neural networks and transistors as fodder, latched onto Charles Babbage's idea, creating a new arena based on old materials."

    July 2009 2009

  • The thought gained attraction because there really had been mechanical computers, going as far back as Charles Babbage's calculating machines from the 1840s.

    Why Steampunk's Time Has Come Tom Shippey 2011

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