Now showing

John Graham-Cumming: The greatest machine that never was

Documentaries & Learning201200:12:15Creative Commons
Poster for John Graham-Cumming: The greatest machine that never was

About this film

Computer science began in the 30's ... the 1830's. John Graham-Cumming tells the story of Charles Babbage's mechanical, steam-powered "analytical engine" and how Ada Lovelace, mathematician and daughter of Lord Byron, saw beyond its simple computational abilities to imagine the future of computers. (Recorded at TEDxImperialCollege)

Directors & creators

TED.com

Subjects

TEDTalks;TED;Talks;TEDxFeatured;computers;engineering;history;technology;tedx;TEDxImperialCollege;2012

View on archive.org ↗

More from this pool

Documentaries & Learning

See all →