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ITNOW 2008 50(1):30-31; doi:10.1093/itnow/bwn020
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© 2008 The British Computer Society

Atomic computing

Alan Woodward


  Abstract

Technological progress comes from pushing hard at the limits of what is currently possible, not from merely following trends others have set. In computing a good illustration of this principle is the life and work of the 19th century computer pioneer Charles Babbage (1791-1870), who spent most of his adult life trying to build a digital computer. Babbage first invented such a machine in 1834. He called it the Analytical Engine.


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