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Edmund Callis Berkeley
Giant brains; or, Machines that think

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Giant brains; or, Machines that think

by Edmund Callis Berkeley

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19 total

GIANT BRAINSORMACHINES THAT THINK

0:32

PREFACE The Subject, Purpose, and Methodof this Book

9:58

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

3:23

Chapter 1 CAN MACHINES THINK?WHAT IS A MECHANICAL BRAIN?

15:43

Chapter 2 LANGUAGES:SYSTEMS FOR HANDLING INFORMATION

18:51

Chapter 3 A MACHINE THAT WILL THINK: THE DESIGN OF A VERY SIMPLE MECHANICAL BRAIN

28:58

Chapter 4 COUNTING HOLES: PUNCH-CARD CALCULATING MACHINES

38:55

Chapter 5 MEASURING: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY’S DIFFERENTIAL ANALYZER NO. 2

38:39

Chapter 6 ACCURACY TO 23 DIGITS: HARVARD’S IBM AUTOMATIC SEQUENCE-CONTROLLED CALCULATOR

44:19

Chapter 7 SPEED—5000 ADDITIONS A SECOND: MOORE SCHOOL’S ENIAC ELECTRONIC NUMERICAL INTEGRATOR AND CALCULATOR

30:00

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Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United States: John Wiley & Sons, 1949.

Credits

Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

Release date

2022-09-14

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68991

Subjects

Computers -- Popular works QA

About the author

Edmund Callis Berkeley

1909–1988

A lively early advocate for computing, he helped explain complex machines to ordinary readers long before computers became everyday tools. His writing and organizing made him an important bridge between the first generation of computer pioneers and the wider public.

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