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To: TomOnTheRun
OH BS.

In 1837, Charles Babbage, a British professor of mathematics described his idea for the Analytical Engine, the first stored-program mechanical computer. The Analytical Engine was designed to be powered by a steam engine and was to use Punched Cards, which was used to program mechanical looms at the time.

There's the real "father of computer science"

19 posted on 09/01/2009 7:12:58 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Nathan Zachary

Babbage’s analytical engine was 1) not using stored programming. It was gear work for goodness sake. And 2) It wasn’t using a digital computational method. Jacquard was the one who made the loom machine BTW. And the cards aren’t stored programs because they don’t represent decision trees - merely a physical barrier to passing a needle though.


21 posted on 09/01/2009 7:16:01 AM PDT by TomOnTheRun
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To: Nathan Zachary

Even binary systems were used thousands of years ago and have been in use ever since. Turing also did not work alone, rather, he worked for the government with hundreds of others. To me, he laid claim to ideas the entire industry had as a whole. He was an intellectual property thief.


101 posted on 09/01/2009 8:21:24 AM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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