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From BLOG@CACM
Rare Circular Slide Rules
Slide rules: the longer the scale, the greater the accuracy of the instrument.
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The Colossus
Unseen images of the code-breaking computer that helped win World War 2.
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What Does Digitization Mean, and When Did It Begin?
Digitization is on everyone's lips. What does digitization mean and when did it begin?
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Is Bard Better than ChatGPT?
A test should show whether Bard is more powerful than ChattGPT or AI-powered Microsoft Bing.
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ChatGPT Invents a Lot of Nonsense
I asked ChatGPT who wrote the book "Meilensteine der Rechentechnik." The program returns many different answers, all wrong.
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What Does AI-Powered Microsoft Bing Say?
The answers from the AI-powered Microsoft Bing are often useless.
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400 Years of Mechanical Calculating Machines
Germany is celebrating the 400th birthday of Schickard's "calculating clock."
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Automatic Language Translation Still Unsatisfactory
Google Translate and DeepL Translate still have trouble recognizing the second person singular and plural and the polite form, even in very simple sentences.
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Artificial Intelligence Without Real Intelligence?
Do the programs understand what they write?
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Did Grace Hopper Create the First Compiler?
Heinz Rutishauser (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) is regarded as the developer of automatic programming.
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Early Computers in Continental Europe
About the Bark (binär automatisk relä-kalkylator, binary automatic relay computer) and Besk (binär elektronisk sekvens kalkylator, binary electronic sequential...
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In Pursuit of an International Computation Center in Europe
The story of the UNESCO International Computation Center.
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Heinz Rutishauser, a Forgotten Swiss Pioneer
A look at the little-known Rutishauser, who created "automatic programming" and was one of the "authoritative fathers" of the Algol programming language.
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Which Were the Most Influential Early Computers?
Considering early machines that had the greatest influence on the development of program-controlled computers.
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Was Ada Lovelace Actually the First Programmer?
Historical arguments for and against.
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Where is the Cradle of the Computer?
The digital computer of today arose in the first half of the 1940s independently in three different countries: Germany, the U.K. and the U.S.
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