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Agreed that Feynman was at the epicenter of scientific computing; before the Manhattan project, computers were only used for businesses.
by castratikron 10y ago
Agreed 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