Books written by Doron Swade
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The Dream Machine: Exploring the Computer Age
Published to tie in with a BBC2 series starting in September 1991, of which Jon Palfreman is the Executive Producer, this book explores the extraordinary rise of a new technology...
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The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer
"In 1821 an inventor and mathematician, Charles Babbage, was poring over a set of mathematical tables. Finding error after error Babbage exclaimed, "I wish to God these calculations had been...
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Unimagined Futures – ICT Opportunities and Challenges
... half century [28]. But if the owner of the confidential information places it in the public domain and accessible for Big Data mining and analysis, the inherent 'secrecy' may be lost. In Australia, as in the United Kingdom, there is ...
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The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer
In 1821 an inventor and mathematician named Charles Babbage was reviewing a set of mathematical tables. After finding an excess of errors in the results, he exclaimed, I wish to...
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The Cogwheel Brain: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer
The story of his lifelong bid to construct such a machine is a triumph of human ingenuity, will and imagination.
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Charles Babbage and His Calculating Engines
Inventor, reformer, mathematician, philosopher, scientist and critic. Charles Babbage, a controversial 19th-century figure, saw both glory and failure.