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Revision as of 09:31, 31 July 2014
--D. Thiebaut 16:05, 18 January 2013 (EST)
iBook reference
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Why
- Target
- Introduction
- Steam Boy
- Mechanical calculators
- Addition, subtraction, multiplication, divisions...
- Several factors: electrical energy, switches, ON/OFF, binary, number systems, math, boolean logic, Shannon ==> Computer
- Electricity
- properties: easy storage, easy distribution, easy generation, fast, easy control
- ON/OFF
- Binary system versus decimal system.
- Boolean Logic, George Boole.
- Logic with electricity and switches
- Shannon: Combining Logic and arithmetic
- From the transistor to logic gates
- Electricity
- Logic Design
- Logic gate simulator
- Assembly Language
- Simulator
- Performance
- Bottleneck
- Von Neumann Architecture
- The architecture
- Computer Architecture: how to bypass the bottleneck
- Example of a High Level Language: Processing
- From Moore's Law to the Singularity.
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Antikythera Mechanism, photo taken by Tilemahos Efthimiadis, National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece., taken from commons.wikimedia.org, July 28 2014. Released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. |
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Steamboy. D. Thiebaut, 2014, Released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. |
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Ice Cream. D. Thiebaut, 2014, Released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. |
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AND OR gates with switches. D. Thiebaut, 2014, Released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. |
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Inverter, And, and Or gates. D. Thiebaut, 2014, Released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. |
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Integrated Circuit, AND gate. D. Thiebaut, 2014, Released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. |
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Daniel Coy, "Conversation", online image, https://flic.kr/p/7mWZpb, Captured July 2014. |
