Experts Rebuild Babbage's difference engine #2 -- Congrats JGC

Posted by d4ft on Monday November 07, 2011 @06:07PM
from the nytimes.com dept.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/08/science/computer-experts-building-1830s-babbage-analytical-engine.html

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Re:Experts Rebuild Babbage's difference engine #2 -- Congrat... by tagawa on Monday November 07, 2011 @11:45PM (#3209538)

You can hear the man himself talk about the rebuilding project here:

http://www.cbc.ca/spark/2011/10/full-interview-john-graham-c...

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Re:Experts Rebuild Babbage's difference engine #2 -- Congrat... by pjin on Monday November 07, 2011 @10:32PM (#3209387)

Just to be clear, Difference Engine no. 2 was completed in 2 parts: in 1991 and 2000. However work on the _Analytical Engine_ has just begun in the planning phase, and excitingly it will be a crowdsourced endeavor.

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