15110
FALL 2012
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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. Notes will generally be posted AFTER they are presented in class as a means of review. 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)
How the Pascaline works
Jacquard Loom Walkthrough - view first 2 minutes and start at 5:45 for loom demonstration
Difference Engine in operation (or take the full tour)
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
Quantum Computing
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
Quantum Computing with Molecules by Neil Gershenfeld and Isaac L. Chuang
(Article in Scientific American, June 1998)
Computing
with DNA by Leonard M. Adleman