Blaise Pascal was a famous French mathematician ... Pascal invented one of the earliest forms of a calculator, known as the Pascaline. This mechanical machine used integers to assist in ...

He’s also known for playing against non-human opponents—and although he defeated Deep Blue, an IBM supercomputer programmed specifically for chess in 1996, he lost to the machine the following ...

A French mathematician named Blaise Pascal originally attempted to create a perpetual motion machine in the 17th ... In turn, this helped it to calculate where the ball was most likely to land.

A large number of such methods, many developed by Dr. Comrie himself, depended in the past on the use of the German Brunsviga Twin 13z calculating machine. The fact that this machine is now ...

THE news has recently been released of a major advance in the development of equipment for extensive numerical calculations, in the successful completion of a large calculating machine based on ...

Calculating machines were sometimes used to compute and print the mathematical tables widely used by nineteenth century engineers, mathematicians and scientists. A small number of digital computing ...

expensive tabulating and calculating machines to ever-smaller, cheaper, more powerful ones. On a free tour, a docent noted that the 1946 ENIAC — a small section of which is here — was the size ...

WOO’s façade design features perforated aluminium strands ‘to invoke the punched cards used in early calculating machines’. These are intertwined via a weaving technique, inspired by the textile ...

Who put me here? On whose orders and on whose decision have this place and time been allotted to me? (from the Honor Levi translation of Pascal’s Pensées, 1995) But it is this line from the Pensées – ...

In discussions about computers and intelligence, I often hear people say that although computers are amazing calculating machines, they will never be able to think like humans. I can think of no good ...