Hawking gives up academic title Oct 1, 2009
Previous holders of the title, founded by MP Henry Lucas in 1663, include Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage, Sir Joseph Larmor and Sir James Lighthill. Prof Hawking, who began work in Cambridge in 1962 and has held the Lucasian Professorship since 1979, is a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. (BBC News -- Science)
Hawking steps down from university post Oct 1, 2009
The roughly 350-year-old position has been held by such luminaries as Isaac Newton and Charles Babbage, one of the fathers of modern computing. It is customary for professors to retire from the post the year they turn 67. (Boston Globe)
Stephen Hawking Oct 1, 2009
Previous holders of the position include Sir Isaac Newton and Charles Babbage. The professor - who has motor neurone disease - sent Newsnight this audio essay. (BBC News -- Science)
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Receives Charles Babbage Grant From Synopsys Sep 9, 2009
KHARAGPUR, India, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Synopsys Inc. (Nasdaq: ), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IITKGP) is the first institution of higher education in India to receive the Charles Babbage Grant from Synopsys ... Synopsys helps resolve this issue through initiatives like the Charles Babbage Grant and its Worldwide University Program, which provide select... (PR Newswire)
The Origin of Computing Aug 22, 2009
Inspired by the work of a computing team in revolutionary France, Charles Babbage, a British mathematician, created the first mechanical device that could organize calculations. The first modern computers arrived in the 1950s, as researchers created machines that could use the result of their calculations to alter their operating instructions. (Scientific American)
University of Southampton Receives Charles Babbage Grant from Synopsys Aug 21, 2009
Aug. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: ), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton is the first Western European university to receive the Charles Babbage Grant from Synopsys ... Synopsys helps resolve this issue through initiatives like the Charles Babbage Grant and its Worldwide University Program, which provide select... (PR Newswire)
Antikythera mechanism may be even older than thought Aug 8, 2009
To me the fist computer was invented by Charles Babbage in the 19th century. The portable clockwork computer had many automatic mechanisms but a computer is that which logically implements everything. (Harper's Magazine)
Tech Lab: Sydney Padua Jul 10, 2009
The influence of of computer pioneer Charles Babbage is explored by animator Sydney Padua (2dgoggles. com). (BBC News -- Technology)
Letters to the editor (5/19/09) May 19, 2009
I am proud to be in the faith company of Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, Johannes Kepler, Robert Boyle, Sir Isaac Newton, Blaise Pascal, George Cuvier, Charles Babbage, Lord Kelvin, Gregor Mendel, Louis Agassiz. Robert Boyle, father of modern chemistry, viewed nature as "a mechanism that has been set in motion by the creator at the beginning and now functioned according to secondary laws, which could be studied by science." He stressed that scientific research "helped to reveal the greatness of... (Anchorage Daily News)
