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Both are based on binary systems, and the Dutch artist Anna Lucia Goense is mining that fact for inspiration. Needlework and computer coding might seem to be incongruous pursuits, but for the Dutch ...

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Charles Babbage’s analytical machine. Wikimedia, CC BY Her 1842 notes to Babbage, exploring the potential of his proposed device, foresaw something akin to AI in future.

From this year, December 26, the birth anniversary of Charles Babbage [an English mathematician and inventor who is credited with having conceived the first automatic digital computer] will be ...

When Ada met Charles Among her many influential tutors was the mathematician and astronomer Mary Somerville, who introduced her to the 42-year old widower Charles Babbage when she was 17.

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Description This is a replica of the portion of a difference engine built by Charles Babbage in 1832. Babbage, an English mathematician, hoped to compute and to print astronomical tables by machine.

Many fields of science have a foundational document: Isaac Newton’s Principia for the physics of classical mechanics, for example, or Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species for evolutionary ...