52 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
gauthiier
474b259cef .gitignore 2015-05-21 21:33:08 +02:00
gauthiier
53848f1a11 cleanup 2015-05-12 20:55:44 +02:00
gauthiier
8148dbbf36 von Neumann - Planning and Coding 2015-04-09 14:30:09 +02:00
gauthiier
b9d5e43d96 Stibitz adder relay 2015-03-19 18:14:41 +01:00
gauthiier
420f1735ea The Whetstone of Witte 2015-03-19 17:57:27 +01:00
gauthiier
5962f7dea3 Logs - Napier + Briggs 2015-03-19 17:34:34 +01:00
gauthiier
34f8945d76 RAND's Million Random Digits 2015-03-19 16:45:08 +01:00
gauthiier
c1e5a6c226 Pascaline (Pascale) + Step Reckoner (Leinbniz) 2015-03-19 15:59:44 +01:00
Robin Boast
c2ff166f61 Turing's discussion of digital computers
In this bit of his 1950 paper, Turing identifies the computer as a
processing and storage system, not as a computational device.
2015-03-19 10:00:05 +01:00
Robin Boast
57bdc1eb33 Turing's Computing machinery and intelligence first page 2015-03-19 09:59:12 +01:00
Robin Boast
1737a2d2e3 OED entry for reckon
I like this as Reckon is about 17 pages longer than that for computer.
2015-03-19 09:58:40 +01:00
Robin Boast
37177e3927 OED dictionary entry for Computer 2015-03-19 09:58:02 +01:00
Robin Boast
759cd645d4 Engelbart's Mother of all Demos
The best image I know of Doug Englebart’s 1969 demo of the personal
computer environment.
2015-03-19 09:57:43 +01:00
Robin Boast
a02dde35d9 some more notes 2015-03-19 09:56:50 +01:00
Robin Boast
4c9f26a09b 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.
2015-03-19 09:56:35 +01:00
Robin Boast
cfbc836815 Barnes - Alan Kay paper
This is Susan Barnes’ paper on Alan Kay’s computer work as a
communication medium.
2015-03-19 09:55:30 +01:00
Robin Boast
6b5d4f551f First Dutch computer
Just for fun as we are in Amsterdam
2015-03-19 09:54:46 +01:00
Robin Boast
275bd069c4 The Arithometer
The first widely used calculating machine. The Arithometer was in use
from the 1860 to this final version produced in 1914.
2015-03-19 09:54:21 +01:00
Robin Boast
ddbce4b4d8 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
any calculative process.
2015-03-19 09:53:27 +01:00
Robin Boast
96e409a72f Alan Turing photo
I particularly like this photo of Alan Turing as it is about the only
one where he is smiling.
2015-03-19 09:51:42 +01:00
Robin Boast
e6b9d81618 Nice set of adding machines and calculators from google 2015-03-19 09:50:40 +01:00
Robin Boast
5151310092 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.
2015-03-19 09:50:18 +01:00
Robin Boast
59b9924d46 When computers were human
Chapter 5 of Grier’s Book, when People were human. "A carpet for the
computing room".
2015-03-04 19:35:29 +01:00
Robin Boast
a7b02f434e Electronic brains
A 1960s advert for the Geniac, an electronic brain (calculator)
2015-03-04 19:34:47 +01:00
Robin Boast
ca9b21e46a Spreadsheet way of knowing
Paper from the early 1980s on the rise of spreadsheets and their
particular epistemology.
2015-03-04 19:34:07 +01:00
Robin Boast
5114955252 Ledgers as computational formula
Ledgers were the primary computational forms for economic, statistical
and financial reckoning until well into the 1970s.
2015-03-04 19:33:15 +01:00
Robin Boast
171d96db63 Calculating machines, calculating women
Three works on women as computors (computers) and its importance to the
concept of computation.
2015-02-12 10:20:23 +01:00
Robin Boast
730c25b9be NRC categories of mathematical tables
This is fun to see that "Calculating machines" are relegated to Z
2015-02-12 10:19:19 +01:00
Robin Boast
e8e60e82c7 History of Computation
Not that good, but a useful resource.
2015-02-12 10:18:15 +01:00
Robin Boast
e1bd1f73d3 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.
2015-02-12 09:40:28 +01:00
Robin Boast
971ee4a2c2 Turing's original paper
This is a clean copy of Turing’s On Computable Numbers. Thought it
could be nice to have.
2015-02-11 14:29:03 +01:00
gauthiier
eccf0492f0 Commented on Computation Project 2015-02-10 13:13:50 +01:00
gauthiier
35e5543075 Deleuze -- The Exhausted
About Combinatorics and Samuel Beckett — à propos when talking about
Computers (humans)
2015-02-10 11:50:38 +01:00
gauthiier
c3d457ec50 Von Neumann (EDVAC + Errors)
I like the idea of fragments (re:  Arcades Project) — perhaps we’d need
to find a combinatorics of fragments.
2015-02-10 11:47:04 +01:00
Robin Boast
b89560b0cd Some papers that are interesting.
See especially Computation Project and Wikipedia-computational logic
2015-02-09 08:30:44 +01:00
Robin Boast
580ea3ecab 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.
2015-02-09 08:02:56 +01:00
gauthiier
6d94553a43 fixed shannon img link 2015-02-06 13:57:25 +01:00
dviid
cf6a813ab5 README.md 2015-02-06 13:39:12 +01:00
dviid
fa16d90b0a quotes etc. 2015-02-06 11:51:29 +01:00
dviid
fb88d346a3 Update index.md 2015-02-06 11:50:29 +01:00
dviid
da997d1676 boole + leibniz 2015-02-06 11:48:18 +01:00
gauthiier
bef0452db6 Leibniz - Arithmétique Binaire 2015-02-06 11:45:31 +01:00
dviid
9d76cb75f3 shannon symbolic analysis 2015-02-06 10:34:53 +01:00
gauthiier
777b52b56a config + img 2015-02-06 10:30:11 +01:00
dviid
64bb642fa0 _prose.yml config 2015-02-06 10:26:01 +01:00
dviid
af5ce68bea easy reckon 2015-02-06 10:07:01 +01:00
dviid
7785fd8abd quotes [Turing, Wiener] 2015-02-05 17:57:53 +01:00
dviid
d818186b89 quotes [Turing, Wiener] 2015-02-05 17:56:49 +01:00
dviid
fe6e1178a6 definitions 2015-02-05 16:38:31 +01:00
dviid
ab4c2c9b6a changes 2015-02-05 15:35:10 +01:00