Computer Science History
Discussions focus on early pioneers, classic papers, and origins of key concepts in computing, often debating attributions to figures like von Neumann, Shannon, McCarthy, Babbage, and others.
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Probably John von Neumann: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13036663I answered here. I linked the paper by McCarthy at the end.
MIT is publishing a book that collects these classic papers:Prior Analytics (∼350 BCE) By AristotleThe True Method (1677) By Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizSketch of the Analytical Engine (1843) By L. F. Menabrea, with Notes by the Translator, Ada Augusta, Countess of LovelaceAn Investigation of the Laws of Thought on Which Are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities (1854) By George BooleMathematical Problems (1900) By David HilbertOn Computable Numbers, with an
I hate to break it to you but the original work on that topic was by Schmidhuber & Schmidhuber back in 1963.
Hello Professor, I was not familiar with you or your work and leave this here for anyone who's similarly uninformed:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hewitt
+1 for the Charles Babbage reference
Some research by none other than Claude Shannon :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAKMEM contains some early history but probably not complete. These type of things get re-invented a lot.
Claude Shannon: https://thebitplayer.com/
Probably you might be referring to McCulloch and Pitts.