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13 de abr. de 2000 · What a difference a century makes. Doron Swade, technology historian and assistant director of London's Science Museum, investigates the troubles that plagued 19th-century knowledge engineers in The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer.. The author is in a unique position to appreciate the technical difficulties of the time, as he led a team that built a ...
What a difference a century makes. Doron Swade, technology historian and assistant director of London's Science Museum, investigates the troubles that plagued 19th-century knowledge engineers in The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer.. The author is in a unique position to appreciate the technical difficulties of the time, as he led a team that built a ...
Doron Swade is the author of The Difference Engine (3.76 avg rating, 294 ratings, 43 reviews, published 2000), The Dream Machine (4.17 avg rating, 12 rat... Home My Books
Doron Swade introduces himself as a scientist rather than a novelist, yet he does an excellent job of bringing Babbage's story vividly to life. The book is an interesting blend of drama and science. There are a handful of paragraphs which if like me you're not a maths or physics graduate might go over your head, but apart from those it is very readable.
Abstract: Alan Turing continues to dazzle, enlighten and bemuse. His work is difficult to situate, straddling as it does theory, practice and philosophical speculation. The nature and extent of his influence continues to elude us, and the haunting originality of his work resists convenient typecasting. He was capable of blinding clarity as well ...
18 de ene. de 2024 · Submitted by Doron Swade to the Computer Conservation Society. Tim Robinson has started writing up findings following the review of the complete Babbage manuscript archive. The initial work is in the form of an overview centred on each of the ‘Plans’ i.e. the large ‘systems drawings’ that Babbage shed during the evolution of the designs.
25 de nov. de 2022 · Doron Swade, Honorary Fellow, Royal Holloway, University of London bDoron Swade/b is an engineer, a historian, and a museum professional. He was Curator of Computing at the London Science Museum (1985-1999), and Assistant Director and Head of Collections there (1999-2003).
