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The Universal History of Computing: From the Abacus to the Quantum Computer Georges Ifrah
Publisher: Wiley

The Universal History of Computing: From the Abacus to Quantum Computing gives a grand title to a grand subject, and Ifrah makes good on his promise of universality by leaping far back in time and spanning all the inhabited continents.If his scope is vast, his Readers will hang on the stories of 19th-century inventors converging on multiplication machines and other, more general "engines", and better understand the roots of biological and quantum computation. The.Universal.History.of.Computing.From.the. As calculators are miniaturized, someday devices that are as small as credit cards may perform the same .. The Universal History of Computing: From the Abacus to the Quantum Computer. Also, modern calculators are more portable than most computers, though some personal digital assistants (PDAs) are comparable in size to hand held calculators. ISBN 031326810X; Ifrah, Georges (2000). Portsmouth, NH: Greenwood Press. Oxford English Dictionary (2 ed.). Indexes in Science and Technology). I might be wrong but my idea of a Turing machine is it was kind of a generalization and in a way simplification of already existing mechanical computers in that it didn't really think of one big set of input that determines how dozens of parts of a machine work and generates its output. -Plato, Philebus, as quoted by Georges Ifrah in The Universal History of Computing: From the abacus to the quantum computer. Tracking provided on most orders. 10 Things To Think When Thinking About A Russian Wife The Universal History of Computing: From the Abacus to the Quantum Computer ISBN13: 9780471441472Condition: NewNotes: BRAND NEW FROM. Summarizing the History of Mechanical Calculating Devices and My Research Thereupon. ISBN13: 9780471441472; Condition: New; Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! It was more of a Even von Neuman's idea of storing the “algorithm” in the memory of the computer instead of hardwiring it comes from the notion of Universal Turing machine. The Blog of Scott Aaronson Quantum computers are not known to be able to solve NP-complete problems in polynomial time, and can be simulated classically with exponential slowdown. The Universal History of Computing: From the Abacus to the Quantum Computer - Wiley - ecs4.com. Retrieved March 18, 2009, from The Museum of HP Calculators Web site: http://www.hpmuseum.org/sliderul.htm. Ifrah, Georges (2002): The Universal History of Computing: From the Abacus to the Quantum Computer.