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People
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Book page / manuscript page (evidence exhibit)
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Summary
This document appears to be page 15 of a book or manuscript titled 'Mind over Computer,' stamped with a House Oversight footer (015705), likely part of an evidence dump related to investigations. The text discusses the history and origin of computers, highlighting Alan Turing's 1936 paper and Charles Babbage's earlier concepts, while also mentioning ancient calculating devices like the Antikythera mechanism. It includes a photograph of Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2.
People (2)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Alan Turing | Mathematician/Computer Scientist |
Credited in the text with effectively inventing the modern day computer via a 1936 paper.
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| Charles Babbage | Mathematician/Inventor |
Credited in the text as the first person to come up with the idea of the computer.
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Organizations (3)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| London Mathematical Society |
Organization where Alan Turing submitted his paper in 1936.
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| Computer History Museum |
Location of Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2 (mentioned in photo caption).
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| House Oversight Committee |
Implied by the footer stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015705'.
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Timeline (1 events)
Summer of 1936
Alan Turing submitted a paper effectively inventing the modern computer.
London Mathematical Society
Locations (6)
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Implied location of the London Mathematical Society.
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Historical location of rudimentary calculating machines.
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Historical location of rudimentary calculating machines.
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Historical location of rudimentary calculating machines.
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Antikythera
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Greek Island where a shipwreck containing an astrolabe was found.
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Location of the Computer History Museum.
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Relationships (1)
Text compares their contributions to the invention of the computer.
Key Quotes (3)
"Alan Turing effectively invented the modern day computer in a paper he submitted to the London Mathematical Society in the summer of 1936."Source
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"He was not the first person to come up with the idea – that honor probably goes to Charles Babbage – but he was the first to fully understand its power."Source
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"Even the game consoles in our living rooms implement artificial intelligence to make the aliens more believable and our hearts pump faster."Source
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Full Extracted Text
Complete text extracted from the document (1,288 characters)
Mind over Computer 15
of symptoms and it will spit out a range of possible alternative diagnoses with probability weightings and suggested further tests. Similar systems are widely deployed in other fields, to build racing cars, design dams and fight crime. Even the game consoles in our living rooms implement artificial intelligence to make the aliens more believable and our hearts pump faster.
Origin of Computers
Alan Turing effectively invented the modern day computer in a paper he submitted to the London Mathematical Society in the summer of 1936. He was not the first person to come up with the idea – that honor probably goes to Charles Babbage – but he was the first to fully understand its power. When we talk about computers today we mean machines, but it is worth noting computers in Turing’s time were more often humans using pencil and paper. The mechanical computers before Turing were elementary at best.
Rudimentary calculating machines were developed in Greece, Persia and China as far back as the Ming Dynasty. An astrolabe recovered from a ship wreck off the Greek Island of Antikythera had cogs and gears and could accurately predict the motions of the sun and planets. Many
Alan Turing effectively invented the modern day computer in a paper he submitted to the London Mathematical Society in the summer of 1936. He was not the first person to come up with the idea – that honor probably goes to Charles Babbage – but he was the first to fully understand its power. When we talk about computers today we mean machines, but it is worth noting computers in Turing’s time were more often humans using pencil and paper. The mechanical computers before Turing were elementary at best.
Rudimentary calculating machines were developed in Greece, Persia and China as far back as the Ming Dynasty. An astrolabe recovered from a ship wreck off the Greek Island of Antikythera had cogs and gears and could accurately predict the motions of the sun and planets. Many
Babbage’s Difference Engine No. 2, Computer History Museum, CA
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