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80The 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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73Stunningly 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...
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71150-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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70Historiography 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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68father 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...
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67How Computers Work
Have you ever asked yourself the question: "I wonder how my computer works?" Neither have I. Nevertheless, I am going to answer it. Just try and stop me. Charles Babbage is...
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62Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace an accomplished mathematician, the daughter of poet Lord Byron and work with Charles Babbage on his Analytical Engine, the concept for an early computer.
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