15110
SUMMER SESSION TWO - 2014
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Fast Links: Slides | Videos/Websites | Articles
Use any posted notes as support material for use in class to help you learn more effectively. Note that any handouts posted do NOT substitute for going to class. We will discuss more than what you see in the basic slides below. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the pdf files.
NOTE: Since these links all come from web sources, some links may fail due
to a video or file being moved or removed.
Abacus video (Digital calculator in Singapore)
ENIAC:
A Computer is Born - C|NET News ArticleVideos/Websites
Napier's Bones: How They Work
Stepped Drum (used in Liebniz' machine)
Jacquard Loom Walkthrough - view first 2 minutes and start at 5:45 for loom demonstration
Difference Engine in operation
Hollerith tabulating machine
The HP-15C RPN Calculator as a Ipad App!
RGB Color Table
Elevated
(Mountain Fractals in 4KB)
Stephen Wolfram: Computing a Theory of Everything (TED2010 Conference)
Conway's Game of Life
Daily Planet: DNA Computer (how DNA can be used as a storage device)
Quantum Computing
Michio Kaku:
Tweaking Moore's Law and the Computers of the Post-Silicon Era
Articles
Algorithms Add
Up To Big Business - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 4/1/07
Why Software
Fails by Robert N. Charette (Article in IEEE Spectrum, September
2005).
On Computable
Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem, by Alan
Turing
Computing
Machinery and Intelligence by Alan Turing
Computing
with DNA by Leonard M. Adleman
Quantum Computing with Molecules by Neil Gershenfeld and Isaac L. Chuang
(Article in Scientific American, June 1998)