What happens when your mother was called ‘the princess of parallelograms’ and your father one of the best poets history has ...

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Both are based on binary systems, and the Dutch artist Anna Lucia Goense is mining that fact for inspiration. Needlework and computer coding might seem to be incongruous pursuits, but for the Dutch ...

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He is Charles Babbage, the man who more than 150 years ago first faintly glimpsed today's computer age and strove to reach it. The Difference Engine is a calculator.

Charles Babbage’s analytical machine. Wikimedia, CC BY. Her 1842 notes to Babbage, exploring the potential of his proposed device, foresaw something akin to AI in future.“It might act upon ...

From this year, December 26, the birth anniversary of Charles Babbage [an English mathematician and inventor who is credited with having conceived the first automatic digital computer] will be ...

Acclaimed as a mathematical genius, Ada Lovelace is said to have understood the potential of the first computer blueprints better than their inventor. A serendipitous friendship with the ...

The defining partnership of Lovelace’s intellectual life would be with polymath Charles Babbage, whom she met when she was 17. In 1833, the year they met, ...

For instance, several works by the philosophers John Stuart Mill and Auguste Comte, as well as writings by Charles Babbage - who first came up with the concept of the programmable computer - are ...

Charles Babbage's Difference Engine, designed in the 1820s, is considered the first "mechanical" computer in history, according to the Science Museum in the U.K.