From: peter@Deakin.Edu.Au (Peter Horan)
Subject: Re: Technical Professionals and the humanities ( Was: Re: Eiffel anyone? - Who uses it?)
Date: 1997/07/21
Date: 1997-07-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5qunom$ler$1@miranda.its.deakin.edu.au> (raw)
> In article <33CECAB3.2AB8@sig.please>, look@sig.please says...
>
> [On Richard Feynman]
>
> >OK, he wasn't a computer scientist, but it's interesting anyway.
>
> Actually he was, in later years. He did some consulting for Thinking
> Machines. I saw a TV programme where one of the people at TM talked
> about Feynman's work with them. Apparently Feynman proposed an
> improved architecture for the machine after doing some maths that
> involved the number of 1s in the computer.
I think he also ran the calculating lab at Los Alamos during the
second world war. I forget the details, but computing existed
before the electronic brain.
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