2008年6月6日星期五

June 5, 1833: Ms. Software, Meet Mr. Hardware

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Babbage had already received funding from Parliament to build a "difference engine" that could do mathematical calculations. While that project was still unfinished, he conceived in 1834 a new and broader idea: an "analytical engine" that "could not only foresee but could act on that foresight."

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