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Allonzo CHURCH
Italian(?)/American mathematician
invented Lambda Calculus
recursive calculus
that lead, indirectly,
to the invention of the recursive computer language
LISP
and its version 2
SCHEME
KONRAD ZUSE
German inventor of
neglected German
digital computer
CHARLES Babbage
English Inventor of 2 mechanical
Decimal Digital Computers
Difference Engine
and
Aanlytic Engine
So quiet
he was dogged by noisy peanola (Multimedia) peddlers
(an older digital invention
akin to Jackard loom
But Jackard died very rich.
)
His desciple,
Lady Ada Lovlace
was the first (female)
computer programmer.
The Swedes overtook Babbage
producing cheaper replicas
of Babbage's inventions.
THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT
STOPPED SUPPORTING BABBAGE.
BABBAGE FELL FROM GRACE
DIED SANS COMPLETING HIS ENGINES.
ONE OR TWO OF BABBAGES ENGINES
HAVE BEEN BUILT IN THE LATE 20TH CENTURY.
VIVA NOSTALGIA !
CHARLES Babbage
Analytic Engine
module
DOUGLAS EBNER
INVENTED THE
COMPUTER MOUSE
which became essential
to
GUI
Graphics User Interface
and
computer graphics
No mouse
NO Mac
No Microsoft Windows
Ebner made little more than his salary
at Xerox Park.
Bill Gates and APPLE
made billions.
- What is your advice to inventors ?
. STOP inventing.
ALLAN TURING
Alan M. Turing. The chemical basis of morphogenesis.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.
B 327, 37–72 (1952).
ALLAN TURING
ENIGMA encryption machine
that gay Allan Turing cracked
A boy, Turing jumped
burglarized Turing,
who was so picqued
Turing complained to the police.
The court gave Turing 2 choices:
prison
chemical castration.
Turing developed breasts.
Turing committed suicide (cyanide)
In 2009
the British government
pressured by a huge internet petition
issued Allan Turing a posthumous
apology
Allan TURING
TURING'S NEURAL NET
BOMBE
A COMPUTER INVENTED BY ALLAN TURING
DURING WWII
TO CRACK THE ENIGMA GERMAN CODE.
NOTICE THE PAPER TAPE BOBBINS
I, budding hacker,
remember
showing my kid sisters
a similar woman manning an early computer;
my sisters noticed but one thing :
the
out-of-fashion
gown !
COMPUTER AS A HOMOSEXUAL DEVIL
DEOMONSTRATION AGAINST
COMPUTER AS A HOMOSEXUAL DEVIL
DEOMONSTRATION FOR
Allan B Turing
1954
a studio portrait
before he commited suicide.
JOINING THAT IN/FAMOUS ENGLISH
HOMOSEXUAL WRITER
Oscar Wilde
Both were boy wild
the GOD DELUSION BOOK COVER
RICHARD DAWKINS
NOT AS FAMOUS AS HIS BOOK
'A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME'
JOHANNE KEPLER
ASTRONOMER MAVERICK
IN LEAGUE WITH
GALILEO GALILI
Italian Statue of Galileo Galili
Inventor of the Galileo telescope
Galileo invented it to get tenured.
Portrailt of galileo.jpg
still ! It revolves.
Kurt Goedel
and co-lingual
Alfred Einstein
(not 2b confused with
Alfred Whitehead
teacher of
Bertrand Russel.
Bothe Goedel and Einestein
spoke fluent German
and accented English.
Both were brain-drained to
USA
Both became intellectually castrated
in
USA
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