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I really miss that era, you know, where you could go around for a soiree and see a mechanical
computer
get demonstrated to you.
And I'm going to take you through the architecture of the machine — that's why it's
computer
architecture — and tell you about this machine, which is a
computer.
The memory is very like the memory of a
computer
today, except it was all made out of metal, stacks and stacks of cogs, 30 cogs high.
It could do the "if then" for basic programmers, and that fundamentally made it into a
computer.
All this cog wheel mechanism here is doing is what a
computer
does, but of course you need to program this thing, and of course, Babbage used the technology of the day and the technology that would reappear in the '50s, '60s and '70s, which is punch cards.
Obviously, you've got a
computer
now.
And just as you do, everyone in this room already's got a
computer
on them right now, because they've got a phone.
If you go into that phone, every single thing in that phone or
computer
or any other computing device is mathematics.
Now, a hundred years later, this guy comes along, Alan Turing, and in 1936, and invents the
computer
all over again.
He laid down the mathematical foundations for
computer
science, and said, "It doesn't matter how you make a computer."
It doesn't matter if your
computer'
s mechanical, like Babbage's was, or electronic, like computers are today, or perhaps in the future, cells, or, again, mechanical again, once we get into nanotechnology.
And so suddenly, you get this link where you say this thing Babbage had built really was a
computer.
The third part is a
computer
simulation of that machine, and the last part is to physically build it at the Science Museum.
When it's built, you'll finally be able to understand how a
computer
works, because rather than having a tiny chip in front of you, you've got to look at this humongous thing and say, "Ah, I see the memory operating, I see the CPU operating, I hear it operating.
Now, we can take this form and use the same process to generate three-dimensional structures, but rather than folding things by hand, we'll bring the structure into the computer, and code it as an algorithm.
And because we're doing the folding on the computer, we are completely free of any physical constraints.
And this is a photo now, it's not a rendering, and the column that we ended up with after a lot of work, ended up looking remarkably like the one that we had designed in the
computer.
It took me several months to design the column, but ultimately it takes the
computer
about 30 seconds to calculate all of the 16 million faces.
I recorded an awesome singer, and I took the sound of his voice in my computer, and I warped it in countless ways to come up with the soundtrack that you're about to hear.
But maybe we can afford to provide each student with a
computer
or a smartphone.
Mastery is easy to achieve using a computer, because a
computer
doesn't get tired of showing you the same video five times.
And I'm not just talking here about statistics and
computer
simulations.
Programming is a three-way relationship between a programmer, some source code, and the
computer
it's meant to run on, but computers are such famously inflexible interpreters of instructions that it's extraordinarily difficult to write out a set of instructions that the
computer
knows how to execute, and that's if one person is writing it.
Once you get more than one person writing it, it's very easy for any two programmers to overwrite each other's work if they're working on the same file, or to send incompatible instructions that simply causes the
computer
to choke, and this problem grows larger the more programmers are involved.
And by writing a
computer
program, you can have different iterations of the different curve, which increasingly get close to one unit square, but never quite reaches there.
Their parents are often illiterate, and then they come to the city, and they, on their own, at night, during the weekends, they'll take a
computer
class, they'll take an English class, and learn really, really rudimentary things, you know, like how to type a document in Word, or how to say really simple things in English.
It's become the dominant school of thought in
computer
science.
I'm talking about J.C.R. Licklider's human-computer symbiosis, perhaps better termed "intelligence augmentation," I.A. Licklider was a
computer
science titan who had a profound effect on the development of technology and the Internet.
Foldit, a game created by
computer
scientists, illustrates the value of the approach.
Non-technical, non-biologist amateurs play a video game in which they visually rearrange the structure of the protein, allowing the
computer
to manage the atomic forces and interactions and identify structural issues.
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