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    Charles Babbage KH FRS (/ˈbæbɪdʒ/; 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical...
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    mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage. It was first described in 1837 as the successor to Babbage's Difference Engine, which was a design...
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    an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine...
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    transcription of Charles Babbage's lecture on the analytical engine at the University of Turin, "Notions sur la machine analytique de Charles Babbage" ("Elements...
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    with Charles Babbage as an assistant while Babbage was working on his "Analytical Engine", the first mechanical computer. During her work with Babbage, Ada...
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    Difference engine (category Charles Babbage)
    functions. It was designed in the 1820s, and was first created by Charles Babbage. The name difference engine is derived from the method of finite differences...
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  • British engineer and industrialist, chiefly remembered as the maker of Charles Babbage's first difference engine, between 1824 and 1833. Joseph Clement was...
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  • Charles Babbage's Saturday night soirées were gatherings held by the mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage at his home in Dorset Street, Marylebone...
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    (1970). Charles Babbage, Father of the Computer. Crowell-Collier Press. ISBN 978-0-02-741370-0. O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F. (1998). "Charles Babbage"...
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  • International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium established the Charles Babbage Award to be given each year to a conference participant in recognition...
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    Herschel Babbage" and was frequently referred to as "Herschel Babbage". He was the son of English mathematician and inventor, Charles Babbage. Babbage was...
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    middle of the 1970s closing an industry that had lasted for 120 years. Charles Babbage designed two new kinds of mechanical calculators, which were so big...
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    with the rank of major general, he continued the work of his father, Charles Babbage, whom he had assisted as a student. He organised and edited his father's...
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    enough and reliable enough to be used daily in an office environment. Charles Babbage started the design of the first automatic mechanical calculator, his...
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  • establishment, the professorship has been held by, among others, Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage, George Stokes, Joseph Larmor, Paul Dirac, and Stephen Hawking. Henry...
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  • Charles Babbage (1791–1871), was an English mathematician, mechanical engineer, and pioneering computer scientist. Babbage may also refer to: Babbage...
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    work, joining Lyell's social circle of scientists and experts such as Charles Babbage, who described God as a programmer of laws. Darwin stayed with his...
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  • Bernoulli numbers, intended to be carried out by Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine. However, Charles Babbage himself had written a program for the AE in...
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  • The Difference Engine (category Charles Babbage)
    technological and social change has occurred after entrepreneurial inventor Charles Babbage succeeded in his ambition to build mechanical computers. The novel...
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    media related to Burroughs Corporation. Burroughs Corporation Records Charles Babbage Institute University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Collection contains...
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    2008; Set of interviews: Oral history interview with John McCarthy at Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. McCarthy discusses...
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  • facilitating archival and historical research. Formerly known as the Charles Babbage Foundation, it advises historians, promotes collaboration among academic...
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  • Minneapolis: Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. ]. "Charles Hall Collection on the SNOBOL Programming Language". Minneapolis: Charles Babbage Institute...
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    definition of outline. Jacquard's invention had a deep influence on Charles Babbage. In that respect, he is viewed by some authors as a precursor of modern...
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    Erwin Tomash at the Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. Oral history interview with William Norris at the Charles Babbage Institute focuses...
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    J. Presper Eckert, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. Oral history interview with Carl Chambers, Charles Babbage Institute, University...
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    mathematical tables, which had been the initial goal of British inventor Charles Babbage for his analytical engine in 1837. According to Edmund Berkeley, the...
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    Until the Y2K Computer Problem? Center for Y2K and Society Records, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. Documents activities of Center...
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    JSTOR 44869096. Mosconi, Jean (1983). "Charles Babbage : vers une théorie du calcul mécanique" [Charles Babbage: towards a theory of mechanical calculation]...
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  • politician Charles Babbage (1791–1871), English mathematician, mechanical engineer, and pioneering computer scientist Charles Whitmore Babbage (1842–1923)...
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