the historian
- Apr 14, 2017
The Notched Bone Computing Device
Just discovered a good article on the history of computing devices from notched bones (yes really) onwards. Well worth reading.
the historian
- Apr 10, 2017
Aristotle Paves The Way For Computer Logic
See this fantastic article in The Atlantic Monthly that describes how logic was first invented by Aristotle and then driven forward in the late 19th Century and early 20th Century by some major philosophers until it formed the foundation of digital computers. (Though a shortcoming of the article is its failure to adequately ackknowledge Ada Lovelace.)
