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Geography and cartography in medieval Islam
Jabir ibn Aflah (Geber) (c. 1100-1150) invented the torquetum, an observational instrument and mechanical analog computer device used to transform between spherical coordinate systems.
Timeline of science and engineering in the Islamic world
Jabir ibn Aflah (Geber) invents the torquetum, an observational instrument and mechanical analog computer device used to transform between spherical coordinate systems.
Astronomy in medieval Islam
Jabir ibn Aflah (Geber) (c. 1100-1150) invented the torquetum, an observational instrument and mechanical analog computer device used to transform between spherical coordinate systems.
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Geography and cartography in medieval Islam
Jabir ibn Aflah (Geber) (c. 1100-1150) invented the torquetum, an observational instrument and mechanical analog computer device used to transform between spherical coordinate systems.
Timeline of science and engineering in the Islamic world
Jabir ibn Aflah (Geber) invents the torquetum, an observational instrument and mechanical analog computer device used to transform between spherical coordinate systems.
Astronomy in medieval Islam
Jabir ibn Aflah (Geber) (c. 1100-1150) invented the torquetum, an observational instrument and mechanical analog computer device used to transform between spherical coordinate systems.
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Koi... Mil Gaya series
The brilliant Rohit takes just two years to invent the prescient computer.
Krrish
The brilliant Rohit takes just two years to invent the prescient computer.
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Astronomy in medieval Islam
In the 15th century, al-Kashi also invented a mechanical planetary computer which he called the Plate of Zones, which could graphically solve a number of planetary problems, including the prediction of the true positions in longitude of the Sun and Moon, and the planets in terms of elliptical orbits; the latitudes of the Sun, Moon, and planets; and the ecliptic of the Sun.
Jamshīd al-Kāshī
Al-Kashi also invented a mechanical planetary computer which he called the Plate of Zones, which could graphically solve a number of planetary problems, including the prediction of the true positions in longitude of the Sun and Moon, and the planets in terms of elliptical orbits; the latitudes of the Sun, Moon, and planets; and the ecliptic of the Sun.
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England
In addition, England produced numerous scientists and inventors such as Richard Arkwright, who invented the first industrial spinning machine, while Charles Babbage was the 19th century inventor of the first computer; Alan Turing and Tommy Flowers invented the modern computer, and many of its associated concepts and initial technologies.
History of computer science
Alan Turing, known as the Father of Computer Science, invented such a logical computer known as the Turing Machine, which later evolved into the modern computer.
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Augmented reality
1938: Konrad Zuse invents the first digital computer known as the Z1.
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New Mexico State University
Edward O. Thorp, mathematician best known for writing the book Beat the Dealer and co-inventing the first wearable computer; Associate Professor of Mathematics 1961-1965
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New Mexico State University
Edward O. Thorp, mathematician best known for writing the book Beat the Dealer and co-inventing the first wearable computer; Associate Professor of Mathematics 1961-1965
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Omega point
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect, a novella by Roger Williams, a computer scientist invents a computer that is self-aware and can rewrite its own code.
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Robert J. Mical
Robert J. "RJ" Mical (born 26 January) created video games at Williams Electronics, helped invent the Amiga computer, co-invented the Atari Lynx and the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer with Dave Needle.
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FERMIAC
The Monte Carlo trolley, or FERMIAC, was an analog computer invented by physicist Enrico Fermi to aid in his studies of neutron transport.
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FERMIAC
The Monte Carlo trolley, or FERMIAC, was an analog computer invented by physicist Enrico Fermi to aid in his studies of neutron transport.
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Marc Blank
After thinking about the problem during his undergraduate years, he started work on his own adventure game using MDL, a computer language invented at MIT.
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Roger Nichols (recording engineer)
In 1978, Nichols pioneered the technique of "digital drum replacement" by inventing the Wendel sampling computer, which was used to provide some of the drum and percussion sounds on Steely Dan's acclaimed Gaucho album, notably the song "Hey Nineteen".
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Astronomy in medieval Islam
Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī also invented the first mechanical lunisolar calendar computer which employed a gear train and eight gear-wheels.
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Predestination paradoxes in fiction
After he does this Timmy, Cosmo, and Wanda return to the present where they produce the deed, which Timmy had hidden in "the one place no one would ever look": the instruction manual for a computer that A.J.'s ancestor had invented.
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Astronomy in medieval Islam
The Equatorium was an analog computer invented by Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī (Arzachel) in al-Andalus, probably around 1015 CE.
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Eunicycle
A Eunicycle is a computer controlled, partially self-balancing, motorized unicycle invented by Trevor Blackwell.
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Magnus Fiennes
A boyhood passion for synthesizers, electronic music and computer boffinery plus a desire to ‘invent’ gave him a preference for using the recording studio as a creative tool over touring and the murky world of band politics.
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Charles W. "Chuck" Durham
Durham was a student under John Vincent Atanasoff, who along with his graduate assistant Clifford Berry, invented the world's first electronic digital computer .
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Charles W. "Chuck" Durham
Durham was a student under John Vincent Atanasoff, who along with his graduate assistant Clifford Berry, invented the world's first electronic digital computer .
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George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron
In a Britain powered by the massive, steam-driven, mechanical computers invented by Charles Babbage, he is leader of the Industrial Radical Party, eventually becoming Prime Minister.
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Maurice Wilkes
He decided that his mandate was not to invent a better computer, but simply to make one available to the university.
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1943
The Colossus computer is invented by the British to break German encryption (see History of computing hardware).
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Watertown (city), New York
Eugene Mosher, a pioneer of human-computer interaction best known for inventing the graphic touchscreen point-of-sale computer
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Watertown (city), New York
Eugene Mosher, a pioneer of human-computer interaction best known for inventing the graphic touchscreen point-of-sale computer
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Clark R. Mollenhoff
In 1988 he wrote a biography of John Vincent Atanasoff, the Iowa State College professor who invented the first electronic digital computer in 1939.
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Bulgaria
John Vincent Atanasoff (1903-1995), an American physicist of Bulgarian heritage, invented the first electronic digital computer — a special-purpose machine that became known as the Atanasoff–Berry Computer — at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa (1937-1942).
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David Potter
In 1984 using radical technology, Psion invented ‘The Organiser’, the world’s first volume hand-held computers for personal use and information.
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California Hall of Fame
Steve Jobs invented the first personal home computer and created multi-billion dollar company: Apple Inc.
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Chinese room
In this, we are asked to imagine that engineers have invented a tiny computer that simulates the action of an individual neuron.
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England
In addition, England produced numerous scientists and inventors such as Richard Arkwright, who invented the first industrial spinning machine, while Charles Babbage was the 19th century inventor of the first computer; Alan Turing and Tommy Flowers invented the modern computer, and many of its associated concepts and initial technologies.
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