COMM 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Konrad Zuse, Herman Hollerith, Ada Lovelace
4 Dec 2018
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Of course, it"s not always technology that impacts society. A mathematician found errors in astronomical tables used by navigators to fix the positions of ships at sea. The errors bothered babbage because lives depended on the accuracy of these tables. He wanted to create a device that would avoid these errors, which would be the world"s first analog computer, capable of accepting instructions, processing calculations, storing information, and printing answers with great accuracy. He blueprinted it, and partly built it, but was never able to finish. Her mother wanted her to focus on logics so she wouldn"t go mad like her father (poet, lord byron) Also had a vision for computing that stretched beyond mathematics. Wrote what is considered to be the first computer program. Trying to find an easier way to search through massive amounts of data (e. g. census) for specific facts. How many irish now lived in new york.
