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You forget that Feynman was responsible for the 'human computer' during the Manhattan project. He was writing algorithms and executing them on the 'machine'. It
by abdullahkhalids 10y ago
You forget that Feynman was responsible for the 'human computer' during the Manhattan project. He was writing algorithms and executing them on the 'machine'. It was ground breaking work for that time.
- peter303 10y agoBefore 1946 "computer", without an adjective meant human computer. When they started constructing electronic ones in the 1940s, they where first called electronic computers to distinguish them from the human kind.
- castratikron 10y agoAgreed that Feynman was at the epicenter of scientific computing; before the Manhattan project, computers were only used for businesses.
- fanf2 10y agoThe computer lab in Cambridge was founded in 1937, before electronic computers. At that time their equipment was mechanical calculators and analogue differential analysers. The purpose was scientific computing, especially theoretical chemistry. There are a few pictures here http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/relics/archive_photos.html http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/relics/archive_photos.html