What is a computer? (the history covering Leibniz, Babbage & Lovelace)

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the origin and history of computers from Gottfried Leibniz's dreams of mechanizing mental work through Charles Babbage's analytic engine. It ends with Ada Lovelace's famous insights about computer programming...ushering a new era of Computer Science which explodes in the 20th Century.

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To learn more about Lovelace check out this article: http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/untangling-the-tale-of-ada-lovelace/



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