babbage in English

noun

family name; Charles Babbage (1792-1871), British mathematician and "the father of computing", inventor of a mathematical computing machine which was the forerunner of modern computers

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1. Sterling Annotates Babbage, finds reference to computer games

2. SWEATblog: Sterling Annotates Babbage, finds reference to computer games

3. The " it " that she's talking about is the analytical engine that Babbage was proposing to build.

4. THE Cowcatcher In 1830 Babbage was a passenger on the opening run of the Manchester and Liverpool railroad line

5. That punch card system inspired Victorian inventor Charles Babbage to create his analytical engine, the first true programmable computer ever designed.

6. Charles Babbage was proposing to build such machines -- and Ada was the first person to really think about how to program them.

7. It was capable of iteration, conditional branching and parallel processing, and it was programmable using punched cards, an idea Babbage took from Jacquard's loom.

8. Braille has several totally coincidental parallels with digital computing: it is binary, it is based on groups of eight bits/dots and its development began in the 1820s, at the same time Charles Babbage proposed the Difference Engine

9. This thing over here is one of three punch card readers in here, and this is a program in the Science Museum, just not far from here, created by Charles Babbage, that is sitting there — you can go see it — waiting for the machine to be built.

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