Jun
5
Difference of the Engine
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There’s a great article on Wired.com about Charles Babbage and Ada Byron, aka the two people who invented computer hardware and computer software, respectively. Their relationship started professionally when Byron translated one of Babbage’s articles, and he was quite impressed. The man was a much better mathematician than he was a writer. Meanwhile, Byron was increasing the size of Babbage’s articles by upwards of 300% (wordy lady) and including her own thoughts, predicting that “a computing machine could compose music, draw graphics and find application, so to speak, in business and science.”