Babbage's Difference Engine No 2 Brought To Life
Articles Charles Babbage's Difference Engine No 2 is making its North American debut at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. A forward-thinking mathematician and engineer, Babbage designed the Difference Engine in 1847.
[May 12, 2008, 16:43]
US Report: BMC Bags Boole & Babbage
News BMC Software (Nasdaq: BMCS) agreed Monday to buy Boole & Babbage (Nasdaq: BOOL) in a stock swap valued at $900 million (£533 millionn). Boole & Babbage shares closed at 26 5/8, down 1 on Friday. Under the agreement, BMC (financials) will issue .675...
[November 2, 1998, 15:49]
Name Your Top Tech Heroes
News Following this week's news that Charles Babbage, Alan Turing and Tim Berners-Lee have all been voted onto a list of the top 100 "Greatest Britons", ZDNet UK would like to hear who your all time technology greats are.
[August 23, 2002, 11:56]
Tech Heroes In Line For 'Greatest Briton' Award
News But politicians of the day did not provide the financial backing that Babbage sought, and the Analytical Engine was never completed. Charles Babbage, Alan Turing and Tim Berners-Lee have all been shortlisted by a nationwide survey, conducted by the...
[August 22, 2002, 12:07]
MP Seeks Solar-powered Laptop For Developing World
News The so-called Babbage Prize could become a regular event, picking a new technology issue every time it is offered, according to Derek Wyatt, MP for Sittingbourne and Sheppey. Mr Wyatt is attempting to gather corporate sponsors for what would be the...
[October 2, 2002, 11:13]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog (Editor's Note: Due to nothing very much of interest happening in the computer industry this week, we are running a previously unpublished extract from Charles Babbage's diary from March, 1851, during the period where his Analytical Engine
[March 22, 1997, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News (Editor's Note: Due to nothing very much of interest happening in the computer industry this week, we are running a previously unpublished extract from Charles Babbage's diary from March, 1851, during the period where his Analytical Engine
[March 22, 1997, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Letters by Babbage, papers by Turing, designs by Eckhert and Mauchly, all manner of paraphernalia that can be linked in some way to the development of the digital world. Friday 04/2/2005 Over in the US, auction house Christie's is having a sale of...
[February 4, 2005, 16:35]
Early Internet Switch Becomes Museum Piece
News The switch, a Cisco Catalyst 1200, will be displayed at the Museum in South Kensington, close to valued technological relics such as Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine and some of Alan Turing's computational work.
[November 30, 2004, 9:10]
Software Patent Directive Adopted
Talkback Now we have the giant of computing forgetting that their industry is built on the inventions of men from Babbage to Turing and so many others, who gave their discoveries and inventions to the world - these companies are patenting the most trivial...
[March 7, 2005, 13:09]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The boy done good by running a "make two, get one free" offer for the Science Museum over bits of Babbage's mechanical computer, but in terms of bang per buck? Monday 31/5/1999 Bank Holiday. Spent slaving over a slightly warm computer, except for...
[June 4, 1999, 19:54]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News The boy done good by running a "make two, get one free" offer for the Science Museum over bits of Babbage's mechanical computer, but in terms of bang per buck? Monday 31/5/1999 Bank Holiday. Spent slaving over a slightly warm computer, except for...
[June 4, 1999, 18:54]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog They named it after Ada Lovelace, posh totty pal of Charles Babbage and widely known as the first programmer, and this remains the only elegant aspect of the whole misbegotten adventure. Wednesday 02/05/01
[May 4, 2001, 16:02]
A Year Ago: Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The boy done good by running a "make two, get one free" offer for the Science Museum over bits of Babbage's mechanical computer, but in terms of bang per buck? This week: Heath and efficiency, dinosaurs versus Microsoft, the dog it was that flew...
[June 5, 2000, 8:01]
A Year Ago: Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News The boy done good by running a "make two, get one free" offer for the Science Museum over bits of Babbage's mechanical computer, but in terms of bang per buck? This week: Heath and efficiency, dinosaurs versus Microsoft, the dog it was that flew...
[June 5, 2000, 7:01]
Wednesday
Blog Everyone knows about Babbage (even Ada Lovelace has plays about her on Radio 4 these days), even if his lasting contribution to society may be better felt in the legislation against street musicians he got through Parliament than his designs for...
[August 23, 2002, 15:58]
MS/Cambridge To Make Announcement
News Cambridge, of course, has a fine tradition of computing breakthroughs and is the alma mater of names like Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage and Alan Turing. Microsoft is looking to the UK's finest young minds to boost its product development.
[June 12, 1997, 15:02]
Tech History Under The Hammer
News The auction also includes personal letters penned by Charles Babbage, credited by many experts as the father of computing for his work on the basic design of computers in the form of his Analytical Engine.
[February 3, 2005, 14:05]
