From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,d0bdd7f5ddf16f72,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d0bdd7f5ddf16f72,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d0bdd7f5ddf16f72,start X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,d0bdd7f5ddf16f72,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public 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 Message-ID: <5qunom$ler$1@miranda.its.deakin.edu.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 257922440 Distribution: world Organization: School of Computing & Mathematics - Deakin University Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-07-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > 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. -- Peter Horan School of Computing and Mathematics peter@deakin.edu.au Deakin University +61-3-5227 1234 (Voice) Geelong, Victoria 3217, AUSTRALIA +61-3-5227 2028 (FAX) http://www.cm.deakin.edu.au/~peter