... than the standard pocket calculators of today. It is often said that Babbages thinking was a hundred years ahead of its time. Skipping ahead about a hundred years to the writing of Claude E. Shannon's masters thesis, we can see how he showed that mathematician George Booles concepts of true and false could be used to represent the functions of switches in electronic circuits ... -15 years has the computers' vast array of uses even started to become realized. Only since then have we begun to see the real impacts of the computer and its almost limitless uses. As it stands,the internet is a...

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... began converge on AI. Engineers began to view brain synapses as mechanistic constructs. "Cybernetics," the study of communication and control in biological and mechanical systems, became a well-known word. Claude Shannon pioneered a theory of information, explaining how information was created and how it might be encoded and compressed. Vannevar Bush's wrote an essay predicting that networks around the world could ... WWII most likely saved Britain in that war; his work in computing laid the foundations of the PC revolution and the Internet.2 Oddly, one aspect of Turing's work has been ...

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