Computing & AI
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Computing History
From human calculation to machines that carry out the work.
Computing & AI · 12 minHow the Circuit Disappeared Into SiliconThe Bottleneck, Part Two: Kilby, Hoerni, Noyce, and the manufacturing breakthrough that turned separately assembled parts into patterns on silicon.Computing History
Computing & AI · 18 minHow Arithmetic Became MachineryIn the Second World War a computer was a job title. Tracing the path from human calculators and firing tables through punched cards, relays and ENIAC to the transistor, as calculation became the bottleneck and then stopped being one.Computing History