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The Antikythera Mechanism – 2,000 Year Old Computer

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Where do you start? Part Indiana Jones, part Stargate, the story of the Antikythera Mechanism is extraordinary, its implications profound. In 1900 a team of sponge divers, sheltering from a storm on the island of Antikythera in southern Greece, made an unplanned dive of the greatest serendipity. To their astonishment they found the wreck of […]

Margot Gerritsen – Mathematics Gives You Wings

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Airplanes, yachts and fast cars. Margot Gerritsen has helped design them all. The Professor of Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford, here describes her varied and exciting career to date, working on the design of modern airplanes, yachts, trucks and cars through her expertise in mathematical and computational modeling of energy and fluid flow processes. She […]

Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe.

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George Dyson, science historian, discusses his new book Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe about John Von Neumann, Alan Turing and the history of computers. Grandson of British composer Sir George Dyson, and son of the famed theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson, young George escaped the shadow of his overachieving family by moving to […]
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