The greatest machine that never was

Name: The greatest machine that never was
Uploaded: 2012-03-24T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 11 min
Description: Computer science began in the '30s ... the 1830s. John Graham-Cumming tells the story of Charles Babbage's mechanical, steam-powered "analytical engine" and how Ada Lovelace, mathematician and daughter of Lord Byron, saw beyond its simple computational abilities to imagine the future of computers.

TEDxImperialCollege 2012Mar 201211 min1271541 views

Speaker

John Graham-CummingCTO & Entrepreneur | Pioneering Cloud & AI Infrastructure

About this talk

Computer science began in the '30s ... the 1830s. John Graham-Cumming tells the story of Charles Babbage's mechanical, steam-powered "analytical engine" and how Ada Lovelace, mathematician and daughter of Lord Byron, saw beyond its simple computational abilities to imagine the future of computers.