The Machine that Changed the World: Giant Brains
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First part of the out-of-print and unavailable history of computing from 1991.
For more information about this video, including a list of all interviewees and notes, see the <a...
First part of the out-of-print and unavailable history of computing from 1991.
For more information about this video, including a list of all interviewees and notes, see the related entry on Waxy.org.
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Title sequence
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Human "computers" like William Shanks, who spend decades calculating pi.
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How logarithm tables were used for calculations
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Charles Babbage
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Babbage's Difference Engine
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Babbage's Analytical Engine
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The Jacquard Loom, inspiration for punch cards in computing
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Ada Lovelace
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Konrad Zuse, creator of the first functional general-purpose computer
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Explanation of binary counting
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Vacuum tubes instead of mechanical relays
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America's need for faster computation during WWII
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John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert at the University of Pennsylvania invent ENIAC
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The difficulties of reprogramming ENIAC
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John von Neumann's paper outlining the lessons learned building ENIAC
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Eckert and Mauchly form the first commercial computer company
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Freddie Williams, creator of the first computer with a stored program
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Maurice Wilkes builds EDSAC, first practical computer with stored programs
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Alan Turing
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Bletchley Park, the British HQ for codebreaking during WWII
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Colossus
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Derek Jacobi performs as Alan Turing
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Interview with Donald Mitchie, codebreaker at Bletchley Park
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Interview with Kay Mauchley, ENIAC programmer and human computer
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Newsreel footage of ENIAC
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Turing's Automatic Computing Engine (ACE)
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Turing on machine intelligence
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Devising the Turing test
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UNISYS funded the majority of the documentary's $500k budget.