Turing's discussion of digital computers —
+In this bit of his 1950 paper, Turing identifies the computer as a
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Commit: 57bdc1eb33cb1f543702bce1fa79fa51375b2bc5
+ Thu Mar 19 2015 09:59:12 GMT+0100 (CET)
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Turing's Computing machinery and intelligence first page —
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Commit: 1737a2d2e3bb0572b6bf849d9f33f60da8a47ac0
+ Thu Mar 19 2015 09:58:40 GMT+0100 (CET)
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OED entry for reckon —
+I like this as Reckon is about 17 pages longer than that for computer.
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Capurro - Information semantic shift article —
+Though this paper is about the semantic shift in information and
+message, I like how it disentangles a semantic shift of an allied term.
+I would like to do something similar with computation.
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Barnes - Alan Kay paper —
+This is Susan Barnes’ paper on Alan Kay’s computer work as a
+communication medium.
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Commit: 6b5d4f551fb1e87e8e9927fcca1251f89e337862
+ Thu Mar 19 2015 09:54:46 GMT+0100 (CET)
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First Dutch computer —
+Just for fun as we are in Amsterdam
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Commit: 275bd069c45ddcaae1e609b9642214649df13cc5
+ Thu Mar 19 2015 09:54:21 GMT+0100 (CET)
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The Arithometer —
+The first widely used calculating machine. The Arithometer was in use
+from the 1860 to this final version produced in 1914.
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Commit: ddbce4b4d8fbd7fbb2b171002d5eb37f9846bd62
+ Thu Mar 19 2015 09:53:27 GMT+0100 (CET)
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Logic gates —
+Again, the process of the computer chip is not so calculative as it is
+logical. It is a process of logical choices of input. Turing’s point
+was that these logical choices, assembled in a process, could emulate
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Commit: 96e409a72f703ca63402c8f524483e73f27a8aea
+ Thu Mar 19 2015 09:51:42 GMT+0100 (CET)
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Alan Turing photo —
+I particularly like this photo of Alan Turing as it is about the only
+one where he is smiling.
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Commit: e6b9d81618e54b0c267708cbf7ee2fa61444c226
+ Thu Mar 19 2015 09:50:40 GMT+0100 (CET)
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Nice set of adding machines and calculators from google —
Alan Kay's KiddieKomp Computer —
+this shows how in the early stages of SRI and PARC’s work on the
+personal computer, they were media and education devices. This shows
+how the goals were not at all about computation, but about media and
+information work and coding.
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Commit: 59b9924d4610984f5aaa770ff810066c55320864
+ Wed Mar 04 2015 19:35:29 GMT+0100 (CET)
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When computers were human —
+Chapter 5 of Grier’s Book, when People were human. "A carpet for the
+computing room".
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Ledgers as computational formula —
+Ledgers were the primary computational forms for economic, statistical
+and financial reckoning until well into the 1970s.
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Commit: 171d96db6379741183c94708933a3562fbe33367
+ Thu Feb 12 2015 10:20:23 GMT+0100 (CET)
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Calculating machines, calculating women —
+Three works on women as computors (computers) and its importance to the
+concept of computation.
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Turing's article on Computing machinery intelligen —
+Turing's article on Computing machinery and intelligence. There is an
+open document as well as the original.
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Idea! —
+Computation Project:
+We could do a collecting project inspired by Benjamin's Arcades
+Project, collecting the ephemera of computation. This not only
+complicates, historicises and reveals computation as a practice, but
+also brings a much needed critique to collection and archiving.
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