Table of Contents
Computers: Past, Present, Future
Past...
Some notable pre-computer devices
Some notable pre-computer devices
Babbage
Babbage
Babbage
Principles of Modern Computing...
Turing
Consequences of Turing’s Work
Logical Model of a Computer
Encoding Information
Encoding Information
Encoding Information
Encoding Information
Encoding Information
Software
Hardware
Present...
The State of the Art
Computers are Everywhere?
Computers as Entertainers
Future...
Virtual Reality
MIT Media Lab
Faster and Faster
A Brain?
Will a machine ever understand?
Complexity, the great barrier
Learning and Intelligence
To sum things up...
Complexity is a barrier for large problems but the field is in its infancy
The following sums up the current state of computing, for most of us...
I really hate this damn machine I wish that they would sell it It never does quite what I want But only what I tell it
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