2025/08/26
From Bones to Turing Machines
The Lebombo Bone and Other Ancient Mathematical Objects
African Binary code
Turing Machine Simulator
Turing Machine Simulator 2
Turing Machine Simulator 3 (Java)
Some resources about the Abacus
The Abacus in Various Number Systems
Demo (The Chinese Abacus)
Mechanical Calculators
The Pascaline
The Antikythera Mechanism
The Antikythera Mechanism
NOVA: Ancient Computer
Babbage, Lovelace and the Analytical Engine
The Difference Engine
The Analytical Engine
9 Neat Facts About the World's First Computer Programmer, Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace and the Analytical Engine
Helping Ada Lovelace with her Homework: Classroom Exercises from a Victorian Calculus Course
Cool implementation of Babbage's Difference Engine using LEGO! Photos, description of adder and carry propagation logic, mechanical issues, etc. at: By Andy Carol
Von Neumann's Computer Archicture
Von Neumann, J. (1945). “First draft of a report on the EDVAC". Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania. DOI: 10.5479/sil.538961.39088011475779.
John von Neumann and the “Report on the EDVAC” from An An Illustrated History of Computers.
Dyson, George. Turing's cathedral: the origins of the digital universe. Pantheon, 2012.
African Binary code
Turing Machine Simulator
Turing Machine Simulator 2
Turing Machine Simulator 3 (Java)
Some resources about the Abacus
The Abacus in Various Number Systems
Demo (The Chinese Abacus)
Mechanical Calculators
The Pascaline
The Antikythera Mechanism
NOVA: Ancient Computer
Babbage, Lovelace and the Analytical Engine
The Difference Engine
The Analytical Engine
9 Neat Facts About the World's First Computer Programmer, Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace and the Analytical Engine
Helping Ada Lovelace with her Homework: Classroom Exercises from a Victorian Calculus Course
Cool implementation of Babbage's Difference Engine using LEGO! Photos, description of adder and carry propagation logic, mechanical issues, etc. at: By Andy Carol
Von Neumann's Computer Archicture
Von Neumann, J. (1945). “First draft of a report on the EDVAC". Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania. DOI: 10.5479/sil.538961.39088011475779.
John von Neumann and the “Report on the EDVAC” from An An Illustrated History of Computers.
Dyson, George. Turing's cathedral: the origins of the digital universe. Pantheon, 2012.
Labels: #Computation, #Turing