In the 1940s a different kind of tool was invented a tool for extending certain powers of mans mind, the electronic computer. It is the fast, reliable, and tireless performance of a variety of arithmetic and logical operatic is which gives the computer its great utility and power. What this exciting invention means to mankind now and in the future is the subject of this provocative series.
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Air Date: 1962-12-03
The first program serves as a basic introduction to computers. Dr. Richard C. Hamming, research mathematician at Bel...
Air Date: 1962-12-10
This program is first concerned with the history of computer development from the first mechanical calculator invente...
Air Date: 1962-12-17
The computer can be called a “universal machine” in that it is capable of doing whatever man is capable of instructin...
Air Date: 1962-12-24
While the industrial revolution resulted in tools for producing things the control revolution is bringing about the u...
Air Date: 1962-12-31
This program explores the design and simulation capacities of the modern digital computer. The program first visits t...
Air Date: 1963-01-07
J. Presper Eckert, co-inventor of ENIAC and vice president of the UNIVAC division of the Sperry Rand Corporation, beg...