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Full circle. Remember that the original 'computers' were people who performed computations. If you recall Feynman's self indulgent book 'Surely you are joking
by kghose 14y ago
Full circle.
Remember that the original 'computers' were people who performed computations.
If you recall Feynman's self indulgent book 'Surely you are joking' he has a chapter where he describes how they would write algorithms which were then run by humans operating adding machines while working on atomic bomb related problems.
- danso 14y agoIs this related to the claim that Feynman was one of the original forefathers of parallel computing?
- kghose 14y agoHmm, perhaps: there is a passage somewhere about how they set up a scheme where instead of the one person doing all the different computations they set up sequences where each person would only do one computation but for different problems which would circulate through the pool in a staggered fashion of some such.
- jbester 14y agoI think that has to do with feynman's time at Thinking Machines: http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine/ http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine...