Juliet Kemp Archive
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ALGOL introduced concepts that are an integral part of nearly every language since – but it never stood a chance against FORTRAN. Unless you’ve studied computer science, you
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Come back through time to the days of FORTRAN – the language of fluid dynamics, computational physics and more. FORTRAN (it dropped the caps in 1990) is the
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Or: a whistle-stop tour through ways people have talked to computers, before we kick off with more in-depth tutorials. Ada Lovelace wrote the first ever computer program without
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Join us in the Linux Voice time machine once more as we go back to the 1970s and the early Cray supercomputers. Computers in the 1940s were vast,
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Programmers everywhere, give thanks for EDSAC and David Wheeler, first implementer of the subroutine. This month we return to the early days of modern computing. Specifically, to Cambridge
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In the 1950s came the transistor, and with the transistor came the supercomputer – here’s how to program one of the first.
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Sophie Wilson was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2013, for having made “a substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge”. By 2014, over 50
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Try a programming language designed amid the rubble of post-war Germany before there were any computers on which to run it. If you have any interest in computer
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John von Neumann, EDVAC, and the IAS machine The Linux Voice time machine takes us back to one of computing’s eureka moments: the von Neumann architecture.
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Ye olde code: Grace Hopper and UNIVAC
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