The Accidental Meeting that Led to the Computer
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- A chance meeting between John von Neumann and Herman Goldstine led to the modern computer. Try brilliant.org/... for FREE for 30 days, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription
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CORRECTION: 6:35 meant to say neutrons, not neurons
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The inventor of the modern computer can be traced right back to the U.K and Charles Babbage, who created the very first computer called the difference engine in the 1820s. He then went on to design a far more complex computer in 1837, called the analytical engine, which today’s computers are based, but due to funding it wasn’t constructed until 1991 at the London Science Museum.
It would be nice if a little research was done. A simple Google search would have uncovered some facts, like Charles Babbage (along with Ada Lovelace) and Konrad Zuse predated these. Apparently they only meant American computers (big surprise in documenting "history").
I believe the following is roughly correct:
In Britain in 1837 Charles Babbage designed the first computer, the Analytical engine, that was later determined to be a programmable, Turing-complete computer (~= general purpose). It was mechanical but was never built.
In Germany during WW2 in 1941 Konrad Zuse constructed the first functioning programmable, Turing-complete computer, the Z3. It was electro-mechanical (used phone switches). It was destroyed in a WW2 bombing raid of Berlin.
In Britain during WW2 in 1943 Tommy Flowers built Colossus. It was the first programmable, electronic computer but it was not Turing-complete.
In the US during WW2 in 1945 the ENIAC was built by Mauchly and Eckert. It was the first programmable, electronic, Turing-complete machine.
In the US EDVAC was built in 1949. It was the first programmable, electronic, Turing-complete, stored-program machine. The design was formally proposed by Von-Neumann and built by Mauchly and Eckert. This is the basis for all of today's computers: Turing-complete (that is, general purpose), electronic, and programmable with an in-memory stored-program. It is called the "Von Neumann Architecture".
charles babbage computer was not as useful as the eniac . eniac is completely different from analytical engine and alot more practical and useful. so credit goes to von neuman. its sad to see that charles babbage was mentioned in our cs text books but not von neuman or alan turing
Modern computers are not based on Babbage's work
lol, how far they would be, without a German called Leipniz!
and as usual, forget about Conrad Zuse, his computer from 1943 got a keyboard while the rest had to move plugs for programming...
what is wrong with the English...if a Scot invents something, he is not a Scot, he is a Brit..
if a English invents something, he is an English...
i wonder why it is this way....i assume the English are special....
but can you tell me why they are??
Charles Babbage was the founder or rather pioneer of the computer.
Funny how computers back then looked like gadgets picked from scrapyards,but now humans have started using computers in interstellar travels or even Neuralink.
The first free programmable computer was the z1, designed and built by Konrad Zusse from 1936 to 1938 in Germany.
It at least was a major stepping stone. One of the usual criteria for the first modern computer is being turing complete. Which none really is because turing completeness requires infinite memory. The Z3 also had no branching so had to compute all possible outcomes then pick a result. So it was a major development and Mr Zuse would deserve some more credit for his work - but at the same time it wasn't quite there yet.
Btw. standard question in the oral undergrad exam "Is computer X turing complete?". The correct answer is no because as mentioned above turing completeness requires infinite memory. Which we still haven't gotten any closer to.
Alan Turing counts as the inventor of the computer. The problem is, that his work was kept secret after the war.
Having been tortured with turing machines in theory of computation I still have nightmares ;-) Turing's theoretical work was groundbreaking but did not directly pave the way to a practicable implementation.
It would be best to give due primary credit to George Boole, whose 1854 book "The laws of Thought" is the singular true milestone work that presented and developed the novel idea that there can be and is a formal mathematics of operational principles by which reasoning is performed, This fundamental work led geniuses such as Von Neumann, Shannon, Pitts, Ashby, McCullogh, Norbert Wiener and Turing to lay the foundations for development of computers. Prior to Boole the basic concept underlying computing was based entirely on developing increasingly ingenious and sophisticated mechanical devices, contraptions and calculators ranging from the simplicity of the abacus to Charles Babbage's analytical engine, rather than laying any true foundation for contemporary computers which stems from the evolution of Boole's application of the intangible mathematics of mental thought processes rather than tangible mechanical devices.
6:34 should be "simulating the paths of neutrons" instead of "neurons"
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Claude Shannon's master thesis, written before the war, is the basis for logic circuits and computing.
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The first computer was designed and built by Konrad Zusse in Germany.
@@martincardenas9459 nope, Charles Babbage built the difference engine long before Zusse was born.
Thanks for the video. Von Neumann is definitely of greater mind than wider recognized Einstein or Oppenheimer.
Great video, very insightful!
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Computer was invented by the german enginer Konrad Zuse and NOT by this two guys showing in this vids !
Yes I agree. The small hat people want to change history
@@redman_the_man I dont understand it. This is a fact and it has been recognized that Konrad Zuse is the founder, yet the anglo-saxon media doesnt want to accept. Are the jealous ??
@@msbudmsbud7593 it's not the Anglo-Saxon media. The media is controlled by the tribe.
Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse
@@neowiko3447 Yes, he invented the first computer, yet they keep stil not accepting this !
They built ENIAC. How is that an accident?
I think you mean "neutrons inside an atomic bomb." There shouldn't be any neurons inside an atomic bomb....
That's right. There should never be!
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Turing designed the computer architecture.
There is no question von Neumann was a magnificent genius and his development of the stored program and associated memory architecture was a leap forward; saying essentially he invented the computer simply skips over generations of others whose contributions enabled his final steps. My professor, Norman Martin, is considered by many the founder of first software company, and he determined the superiority of silicon vs switching core for RAM during the same time period as von Neumann was working. I don't recall if Martin worked with von Neumann, but I expect he did.
I wonder if anyone's ported Doom to EDVAC yet
looks to me like you have never heard about Colossus
edit: or Antikythera, for that matter
Ever heard of Harvard architecture? Nowadays mainly used for DSP chips which are CPUs in their own right. Also used for PIC and ARV microprocessors with modified Harvard architecture.
It is rather unfortunate that Goldstine wrote "A History of the Computer" and err.. completely forgot to mention the British contribution! History is after all written by the Winners, who in the Computer game were/are the Americans. Of course, details of Bletchley Park which was instrumental in breaking the German Enigma code machine wasn't released until 1975. This was based on Turings's Bombes which were electro-mechanical. More importantly, details of Colussus weren't released until the 1990s. This machine was the world's first truly programmable, electronic high speed computer, developed, in total secrecy at Bletchley, in the early 1940s, and was used to break the Japanese shipping codes.
konrad zuse he build the Z1 between 1936 to 1938 it was the first computer
Yes and no. Both Z1 and Z3 were not Turing-complete (Z3 could be fugded to be, in a way, but that was only discovered much later). Zuse's machines were what would we today would call Harvard architecture. They had separate memories for code and data. And because these separate memory (perforated film strips for code) Zuse first overlooked the idea of loops. But Zuse's machines used binary from the start.
The ENIAC however was Turing-complete, it could do some kind of recursion. But it used decimal numbers.
@@thiloreichelt4199so you said zuse machines are not a computers , ok
@@cfoa13 you’re both wrong because Charles Babbage built the first computer in the U.K. along with the concept of CPU (mill) and memory (store) in the 1820s, long before Zusse was born. Google it!
And he also figured out who framed Roger Rabbit.
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Meeting by chance.
Awesome history! Thanks
Thanks for another interesting video.
Konrad Zuse build the first computer 1941
@@Vindex0 nope you’re wrong, Charles Babbage built the first computer in the 1820s London. Google it.
Great video!
I thought Alan Turing was the 'father' of the digital computer? Then I see this video. Then I see the comments below. I wish we could believe what we see & hear.
Thanks for making a video about him and his achievements!
Did not know that his wife wrote such a first program, so great :)
The greatest thing Eniac did was teach Von Nueman, Eckert and Mauchley how NOT to build a computer.
Nope it was the UK first with Babbage in the 1820s and then later in 1943 when Colossus was created although it was kept secret so some books will say the US did it first in 1944 but its not true.
Turing. Bletchley Park
Atanasoff-Berry Computer, the ABC.
leave it to the juices..
Hertzel Millele Rullinkoff,
John V. Atanasoff?
"The paths of neurons inside an atomic bomb."
Yeah, right.
This is all bullshyte anyway.
Ref. Colossus and Tommy Flowers.
Meant to say neutrons
to my opinion Alan Turing had build the fist real computer.
because he had build a real machine not an "abstract" like told here.
charles babbage computer was not as useful as the eniac . eniac is completely different from analytical engine and alot more practical and useful. so credit goes to von neuman. its sad to see that charles babbage was mentioned in our cs text books but not von neuman or alan turing
Twaddle. This is american washing history. ENIAC in 1945 required manual reconfiguration for each new task. It wasn’t until 1948, that ENIAC was modified to include a primitive form of a stored-program capability, but it still did not fully embody the modern stored-program concept.
The first true stored-program computer was generally considered to be the Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM) in 1948, followed by other machines that implemented the von Neumann architecture.
This completely ignores the parallel developments from Bletchley Park in the UK. Ultra was so secret that staff there had to conceal what they knew and how they knew it. One of them visited the IAS in order to be "inspired" by the ideas that created the computer, (which they already had).
As far as I know Konrad Zuse was the first to build a programmable computer.
Sorry, you're wrong. It was WAY before 1944. Babbage, Zuse, ...
Nope
It was Goldstein's (pronounced stein/steyn, not steen) wife who was the part inventor of the computer.
This story is just yer normul avvidge TH-cam nonsense.
Ughh learn how to do research you never even mentioned Charles Babbage (1830) or Konrad Zuse (1930s) and glossed over Alan Turing who built Colossus 1944 which decrypted the German Cypher Enigma during the war. Not subscribing and not liking
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you meant to say 'factually incorrect', surely
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