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90Five Poems by Poetry's "Bad Boy," Lord Byron
The life of 19th-century Romantic poet Lord Byron is summarized. His literary and humanitarian endeavors are highlighted. Five of Lord Byron's poems on history, love and relationships are presented.
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77The Alice Project - Make Your Own Movie With The Sims
The Alice project is part of the legacy of Randy Pausch, a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon university, currently dying of cancer, who is famous for his Last Lecture. Alice 3.0, to be released this year, will allow users to create animations using Sims.
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88Evolution Of Computers
When men started to count the numbers, they thought of devices that can track of the numbers. The Abacus may be the first such device and it took hundreds of years to develop the Abacus to modern digital computer. The first computer originated as...
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75150-Year-Old Charles Babbage's Computer Brought to Life
Charles Babbage's Analytical Computer Brought to Life. Photo courtesy Sciam.com. Charles Babbage created the first computer designs but never had a chance to create the machine until it was created recently...
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65father of computers-Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage, a British Mathematics professor, is regarded as the Father of Computers. He was born in England in 1792 as the son of a rich banker from Devon. He was inspired by Napier's logarithm tables and Napier's logs and bones. He began to...
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75Historiography of Ada Augusta Lovelace
In this new 21st century we share an image of a computer programmer best epitomized by that wunder-geek, Bill Gates. Few people would guess the individual long considered the first computer programmer was a...
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72Stunningly Intricate: Curta Mechanical Calculator
What if Babbage's Difference Engine spawned a "laptop"? It's hard to find more desirable and satisfying (in a tactile sort of way) mechanical fetish item from the age of early computing... For years Curta calculators enjoyed a cult status among...
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57Babbage Consultants Cons Unlimited
Dear Phil,Thank you for your very brief and unremarkable email, even if it is largely misguided and falsely accusative.You will note that unlike yours, my emails have substance, they are substantial, factual...
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67Book Review: Jacquard's Web by James Essinger
Essinger, James. Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 302 pp. In 1804 in Lyons, France, Joseph Marie Jacquard invented the first...
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