3 posters · 1703 to 1969
Computing pioneers
The first texts of computing: Leibniz on binary arithmetic, Ada Lovelace’s Note G on the Analytical Engine, and the ASCII of RFC 20.
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Computing pioneers
Leibniz: Explication de l’arithmétique binaire
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1703
Leibniz’s 1703 memoir presenting base-two arithmetic with 0 and 1, its tables, and the Fohy trigrams.
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Computing pioneers
Sketch of the Analytical Engine: Note G
Ada Lovelace, 1843
Lovelace’s last note on the Analytical Engine: its limits, and how it would compute the Bernoulli numbers.
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Computing pioneers
RFC 20: ASCII format for Network Interchange
Vint Cerf, 1969
Vint Cerf’s 1969 proposal to use 7-bit ASCII on the ARPA network, with the code table of the USA standard.
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