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106 relations: Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, Algorithmic efficiency, Allan G. Bromley, Alternate history, Arithmetic, Arithmetic logic unit, Assembly language, Atanasoff–Berry computer, Bernoulli number, Binary number, Bomba (cryptography), Bombe, Branch (computer science), British Empire, British Science Association, Bruce Sterling, Central processing unit, Character (computing), Charles Babbage, Charles Sheffield, China Miéville, Colossus computer, Computer, Computer History Museum, Computer memory, Computer program, Control flow, Cyberpunk, Decimal, Delhi, Difference engine, Digital data, Dynamic random-access memory, Electromechanics, Electronics, Engineering tolerance, ENIAC, Faction Paradox, Finite difference, Flip-flop (electronics), Floating-point arithmetic, Gaussian elimination, Georgia on My Mind (novelette), Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard Mark I, Harvard University, Howard H. Aiken, Hugh Cook (science fiction author), J. Presper Eckert, ..., Jacquard loom, John Graham-Cumming, John Mauchly, John Walker (programmer), Joseph Clement, Kilobyte, Last Exile, Lawrence Miles, Logarithm, Loom, Luigi Federico Menabrea, Manchester Baby, Mechanical engineering, Michael Flynn (writer), Microcode, Murdoch Mysteries, Neal Stephenson, Novella, Orion's Arm, Palace of Westminster, Percy Ludgate, Perdido Street Station, Pi, Polynomial, Professor Moriarty, Programmer, Punched card, Punched tape, Queen Victoria, Relay, S. M. Stirling, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Science Museum, London, Scientific Memoirs, Sherlock Holmes, South Kensington, Square root, Srinagar, Steampunk, Sydney Padua, The Book of the War, The Diamond Age, The Difference Engine, The Peshawar Lancers, The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, Thyratron, Trigonometric functions, Triode, Turing completeness, Vacuum tube, William Gibson, Williams tube, Z3 (computer), Z4 (computer), 1862 International Exhibition, 35 mm film. Expand index (56 more) »
Ada Lovelace
Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852) was an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
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Alan Turing
Alan Mathison Turing (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist.
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Algorithmic efficiency
In computer science, algorithmic efficiency is a property of an algorithm which relates to the number of computational resources used by the algorithm.
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Allan G. Bromley
Allan George Bromley (1 February 1947 – 16 August 2002) was an Australian historian of computing who became a world authority on many aspects of early computing and was one of the most avid collectors of mechanical calculators.
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Alternate history
Alternate history or alternative history (Commonwealth English), sometimes abbreviated as AH, is a genre of fiction consisting of stories in which one or more historical events occur differently.
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Arithmetic
Arithmetic (from the Greek ἀριθμός arithmos, "number") is a branch of mathematics that consists of the study of numbers, especially the properties of the traditional operations on them—addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
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Arithmetic logic unit
An arithmetic logic unit (ALU) is a combinational digital electronic circuit that performs arithmetic and bitwise operations on integer binary numbers.
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Assembly language
An assembly (or assembler) language, often abbreviated asm, is a low-level programming language, in which there is a very strong (but often not one-to-one) correspondence between the assembly program statements and the architecture's machine code instructions.
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Atanasoff–Berry computer
The Atanasoff–Berry Computer (ABC) was the first automatic electronic digital computer, an early electronic digital computing device that has remained somewhat obscure.
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Bernoulli number
In mathematics, the Bernoulli numbers are a sequence of rational numbers which occur frequently in number theory.
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Binary number
In mathematics and digital electronics, a binary number is a number expressed in the base-2 numeral system or binary numeral system, which uses only two symbols: typically 0 (zero) and 1 (one).
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Bomba (cryptography)
The bomba, or bomba kryptologiczna (Polish for "bomb" or "cryptologic bomb") was a special-purpose machine designed about October 1938 by Polish Cipher Bureau cryptologist Marian Rejewski to break German Enigma-machine ciphers.
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Bombe
The bombe is an electro-mechanical device used by British cryptologists to help decipher German Enigma-machine-encrypted secret messages during World War II.
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Branch (computer science)
A branch is an instruction in a computer program that can cause a computer to begin executing a different instruction sequence and thus deviate from its default behavior of executing instructions in order.
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British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.
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British Science Association
The British Science Association (BSA) is a charity and learned society founded in 1831 to aid in the promotion and development of science.
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Bruce Sterling
Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author known for his novels and work on the Mirrorshades anthology.
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Central processing unit
A central processing unit (CPU) is the electronic circuitry within a computer that carries out the instructions of a computer program by performing the basic arithmetic, logical, control and input/output (I/O) operations specified by the instructions.
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Character (computing)
In computer and machine-based telecommunications terminology, a character is a unit of information that roughly corresponds to a grapheme, grapheme-like unit, or symbol, such as in an alphabet or syllabary in the written form of a natural language.
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Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath.
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Charles Sheffield
Charles Sheffield (25 June 1935 – 2 November 2002) was an English-born mathematician, physicist and science fiction writer who served as a President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and of the American Astronautical Society.
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China Miéville
China Tom Miéville (born 6 September 1972) is an English fantasy fiction author, comic writer, political activist and academic.
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Colossus computer
Colossus was a set of computers developed by British codebreakers in the years 1943–1945 to help in the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher.
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Computer
A computer is a device that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically via computer programming.
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Computer History Museum
The Computer History Museum (CHM) is a museum established in 1996 in Mountain View, California, US.
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Computer memory
In computing, memory refers to the computer hardware integrated circuits that store information for immediate use in a computer; it is synonymous with the term "primary storage".
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Computer program
A computer program is a collection of instructions for performing a specific task that is designed to solve a specific class of problems.
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Control flow
In computer science, control flow (or flow of control) is the order in which individual statements, instructions or function calls of an imperative program are executed or evaluated.
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Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a futuristic setting that tends to focus on a "combination of lowlife and high tech" featuring advanced technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cybernetics, juxtaposed with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.
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Decimal
The decimal numeral system (also called base-ten positional numeral system, and occasionally called denary) is the standard system for denoting integer and non-integer numbers.
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Delhi
Delhi (Dilli), officially the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT), is a city and a union territory of India.
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Difference engine
A difference engine is an automatic mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions.
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Digital data
Digital data, in information theory and information systems, is the discrete, discontinuous representation of information or works.
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Dynamic random-access memory
Dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) is a type of random access semiconductor memory that stores each bit of data in a separate tiny capacitor within an integrated circuit.
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Electromechanics
In engineering, electromechanics combines processes and procedures drawn from electrical engineering and mechanical engineering.
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Electronics
Electronics is the discipline dealing with the development and application of devices and systems involving the flow of electrons in a vacuum, in gaseous media, and in semiconductors.
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Engineering tolerance
Engineering tolerance is the permissible limit or limits of variation in.
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ENIAC
ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was amongst the earliest electronic general-purpose computers made.
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Faction Paradox
Faction Paradox is a fictional time travelling cult/rebel group/organized crime syndicate, originally created by the author Lawrence Miles.
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Finite difference
A finite difference is a mathematical expression of the form.
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Flip-flop (electronics)
In electronics, a flip-flop or latch is a circuit that has two stable states and can be used to store state information.
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Floating-point arithmetic
In computing, floating-point arithmetic is arithmetic using formulaic representation of real numbers as an approximation so as to support a trade-off between range and precision.
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Gaussian elimination
In linear algebra, Gaussian elimination (also known as row reduction) is an algorithm for solving systems of linear equations.
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Georgia on My Mind (novelette)
"Georgia on My Mind" (1993) is an English language science fiction novelette by Charles Sheffield.
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Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
Harvard University's Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments (CHSI), established 1948, is "one of the three largest university collections of its kind in the world".
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Harvard Mark I
The IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), called Mark I by Harvard University’s staff, was a general purpose electromechanical computer that was used in the war effort during the last part of World War II.
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Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Howard H. Aiken
Howard Hathaway Aiken (March 8, 1900 – March 14, 1973) was an American physicist and a pioneer in computing, being the original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer.
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Hugh Cook (science fiction author)
Hugh Cook (–) was a cult author whose works blend fantasy and science fiction.
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J. Presper Eckert
John Adam Presper "Pres" Eckert Jr. (April 9, 1919 – June 3, 1995) was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer.
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Jacquard loom
The Jacquard machine is a device fitted to a power loom that simplifies the process of manufacturing textiles with such complex patterns as brocade, damask and matelassé.
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John Graham-Cumming
John Graham-Cumming is a British programmer and writer best known for having originated a successful petition to the British Government asking for an apology for its persecution of Alan Turing.
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John Mauchly
John William Mauchly (August 30, 1907 – January 8, 1980) was an American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, the first general purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States.
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John Walker (programmer)
John Walker is a computer programmer, author and co-founder of the computer-aided design software company Autodesk.
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Joseph Clement
Joseph Clement (13 June 1779 – 28 February 1844) was a British engineer and industrialist, chiefly remembered as the maker of Charles Babbage's first difference engine, between 1824 and 1833.
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Kilobyte
The kilobyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.
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Last Exile
is a Japanese animated television series created by Gonzo.
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Lawrence Miles
Lawrence Miles (born 15 March 1972 in Middlesex) is a science fiction author known for his work on original Doctor Who novels (for both the Virgin New Adventures and BBC Books series) and the subsequent spin-off Faction Paradox.
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Logarithm
In mathematics, the logarithm is the inverse function to exponentiation.
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Loom
A loom is a device used to weave cloth and tapestry.
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Luigi Federico Menabrea
Luigi Federico Menabrea (4 September 1809 – 24 May 1896), later made 1st Count Menabrea and 1st Marquess of Valdora, was an Italian general, statesman and mathematician who served as the Prime Minister of Italy from 1867 to 1869.
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Manchester Baby
The Manchester Baby, also known as the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), was the world's first stored-program computer.
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Mechanical engineering
Mechanical engineering is the discipline that applies engineering, physics, engineering mathematics, and materials science principles to design, analyze, manufacture, and maintain mechanical systems.
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Michael Flynn (writer)
Michael Francis Flynn (born 1947) is an American statistician and science fiction author.
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Microcode
Microcode is a computer hardware technique that imposes an interpreter between the CPU hardware and the programmer-visible instruction set architecture of the computer.
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Murdoch Mysteries
Murdoch Mysteries is a Canadian television drama series aired on both City and CBC Television (titled The Artful Detective on the Ovation cable TV network) featuring Yannick Bisson as William Murdoch, a police detective working in Toronto, Ontario, around the turn of the twentieth century.
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Neal Stephenson
Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer and game designer known for his works of speculative fiction.
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Novella
A novella is a text of written, fictional, narrative prose normally longer than a short story but shorter than a novel, somewhere between 7,500 and 40,000 words.
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Orion's Arm
Orion's Arm (also called the Orion's Arm Universe Project, OAUP, or simply OA) is a multi-authored online science fiction world-building project, first established in 2000 by M. Alan Kazlev, Donna Malcolm Hirsekorn, Bernd Helfert and Anders Sandberg and further co-authored by many people since.
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Palace of Westminster
The Palace of Westminster is the meeting place of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Percy Ludgate
Percy Edwin Ludgate (2 August 1883 – 16 October 1922) was an accountant in Dublin and designer of an analytical engine.
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Perdido Street Station
Perdido Street Station is a weird fantasy novel by British writer China Miéville, the first of three independent works set in the fictional world of Bas-Lag, a place where both magic (referred to as 'thaumaturgy') and steampunk technology exist.
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Pi
The number is a mathematical constant.
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Polynomial
In mathematics, a polynomial is an expression consisting of variables (also called indeterminates) and coefficients, that involves only the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and non-negative integer exponents of variables.
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Professor Moriarty
Professor James Moriarty is a fictional character in some of the Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Programmer
A programmer, developer, dev, coder, or software engineer is a person who creates computer software.
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Punched card
A punched card or punch card is a piece of stiff paper that can be used to contain digital data represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions.
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Punched tape
Punched tape or perforated paper tape is a form of data storage, consisting of a long strip of paper in which holes are punched to store data.
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Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death.
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Relay
A relay is an electrically operated switch.
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S. M. Stirling
Stephen Michael Stirling (born September 30, 1953) is a French-born Canadian-American science-fiction and fantasy author.
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School of Computer Science, University of Manchester
The School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester is the longest established school of Computer Science in the United Kingdom and one of the largest.
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Science Museum, London
The Science Museum is a major museum on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London.
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Scientific Memoirs
Scientific Memoirs, Selected from the Transactions of Foreign Academies of science and Learned Societies and from Foreign Journals was a series of books edited and published by Richard Taylor (1781–1858) in London between 1837 and 1852.
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Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional private detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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South Kensington
South Kensington is an affluent district of West London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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Square root
In mathematics, a square root of a number a is a number y such that; in other words, a number y whose square (the result of multiplying the number by itself, or) is a. For example, 4 and −4 are square roots of 16 because.
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Srinagar
Srinagar is the largest city and the summer capital of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.
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Steampunk
Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction or science fantasy that incorporates technology and aesthetic designs inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery.
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Sydney Padua
Melina Sydney Padua is a graphic artist and animator based in London, England.
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The Book of the War
The Book of the War is a hypertext multi-author novel presented in the form of an encyclopedia of the first 50 years of the War in the Faction Paradox universe based on the Doctor Who universe.
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The Diamond Age
The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a science fiction novel by American writer Neal Stephenson.
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The Difference Engine
The Difference Engine (1990) is an alternative history novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling.
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The Peshawar Lancers
The Peshawar Lancers is an alternate history, steampunk, post-apocalyptic fiction adventure novel by S. M. Stirling, with its point of divergence occurring in 1878 when the Earth is struck by a devastating meteor shower.
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The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer is a steampunk graphic novel written and drawn by Sydney Padua.
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Thyratron
A thyratron is a type of gas-filled tube used as a high-power electrical switch and controlled rectifier.
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Trigonometric functions
In mathematics, the trigonometric functions (also called circular functions, angle functions or goniometric functions) are functions of an angle.
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Triode
A triode is an electronic amplifying vacuum tube (or valve in British English) consisting of three electrodes inside an evacuated glass envelope: a heated filament or cathode, a grid, and a plate (anode).
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Turing completeness
In computability theory, a system of data-manipulation rules (such as a computer's instruction set, a programming language, or a cellular automaton) is said to be Turing complete or computationally universal if it can be used to simulate any Turing machine.
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Vacuum tube
In electronics, a vacuum tube, an electron tube, or just a tube (North America), or valve (Britain and some other regions) is a device that controls electric current between electrodes in an evacuated container.
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William Gibson
William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk.
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Williams tube
The Williams tube, or the Williams–Kilburn tube after inventors Freddie Williams (26 June 1911 – 11 August 1977), and Tom Kilburn (11 August 1921 – 17 January 2001), is an early form of computer memory.
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Z3 (computer)
The Z3 was a German electromechanical computer designed by Konrad Zuse.
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Z4 (computer)
The Z4 was the world's first commercial digital computer, designed by German engineer Konrad Zuse and built by his company Zuse Apparatebau in 1945.
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1862 International Exhibition
The International of 1862, or Great London Exposition, was a world's fair.
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35 mm film
35 mm film (millimeter) is the film gauge most commonly used for motion pictures and chemical still photography (see 135 film).
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_Engine
