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Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age by Kurt W Beyer
By PD Smith Grace Hopper, who became a "coder" (or programmer) in the 1940s, was one of the great pioneers of the computer age. In 1934 she had been the first woman in Yale's 233-year history to graduate with a doctorate in maths. After Pearl Harbor, she worked on "a new type of secret weapon that could change the outcome of the war". The Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator was 8ft high ...
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How Alan Turing Invented the Computer Age
In 1936, whilst studying for his Ph.D. at Princeton University, the English mathematician Alan Turing published a paper, On Computable Numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem, which became the foundation of computer science. In it Turing presented a theoretical machine that could solve any problem that could be described by simple instructions encoded on a paper tape. One Turing ...
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The Week's Top 20 in Social Media
The social media sphere is an increasingly noisy place, especially for brands. But hiding somewhere in the static are strong signals from companies reaching their customers in innovative ways. The Social Business Index from Dachis Group provides a (free) real-time ranking of more than 30,000 global brands based on their social performance. Every week we're taking a tally of who's getting heard ...
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Meet the Man Who Invented the Instructions for the Internet [Internet]
# internet Steve Crocker was there when the internet was born . The date was Oct. 29, 1969, and the place was the University of California, Los Angeles. Crocker was among a small group of UCLA researchers who sent the first message between the first two nodes of the ARPAnet, the U.S. Department of Defense–funded network that eventually morphed into the modern internet. More »
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England v West Indies – live! | Rob Smyth and Rob Bagchi
• Hit the auto-update button for the latest posts • Send your thoughts to rob.smyth@guardian.co.uk • Look in on the latest county cricket action here Rob will be here from 10.15am. In the meantime here's Mike Selvey on why he reckons Steven Finn could be the man to shake up Shivnarine Chanderpaul … Finn can provide England with the answer West Indies' chance to establish themselves in this ...
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Google honors music legend, synthesizer inventor with doodle
On Wednesday, the search giant Google honored the late Robert Moog, the inventor the electronic synthesizer, with a Google doodle.
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Portland State University students' invention tops the field at national engineering competition
Four Portland State University seniors have invented a computer-aided pill identifier to help doctors and nurses act quickly in emergencies, beating out teams from top engineering schools in a national contest at Walt Disney World.
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Omahan makes living making iMac aquariums
Jake Harms doesn't claim to have invented the idea of placing an aquarium inside a vintage iMac computer. But he thinks he may be the only person to make a successful business of it.
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Two Futurists, Two Paths to the Future
What does the future hold? It depends on who you are and how you look at it. Two vastly different sorts of visionaries elaborated on their approaches in Austin recently.
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First There Was Scrabble, Then Came Words With Friends, Now Introducing...INversionGAMES
MARYLAND, May 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- In the history of word games, none has been radically innovative as INversionGAMES, where any letter can be turned instantly into another! For beginners, this ...
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