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Dónal and Ciarán go back, back, back to see how the long history of computing machines connects to the AI revolution we're in now.
Topics in this episode
- How far back does the history of humans building machines to aid our thinking go?
- Why are French weaving machines and alcoholic poet's daughters involved?
- How does the history of computing go through County Cork in the 1800s?
- Who are Turning and Shannon, and why do workplace disagreements leading to new companies fracturing off seem to be a repeating theme?
- What are the key developments in the evolution of computing that allow us to build AI systems now?
Links & Resources
- The Antikythera Mechanism (Wikipedia)
- Information about George Boole's time in Cork (UCC Website)
- Crash Course video on Boolean Logic (YouTube)
- An image of "The Mechanical Turk" (WikiMedia Commons)
- Tom Standage's (2002) The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine
- Information about and images of the Jacquard Loom (Science & Industry Museum)
- The portrait of J.M. Jacquard, woven in silk by his loom, which took 24,000 punch cards to program (WikiMedia Commons)
- Photograph of a young Claude Shannon, juggling on a unicycle (Ray Soni, Photo courtesy of the Shannon family)
- Ray Cavanaugh's (2016) article Claude Shannon: The Juggling Unicyclist Who Pedaled Us Into the Digital Age (Time Magazine)
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