A History of Computing: A History of Ideas (CITS, 2003)

Originally recorded January 24, 2003. Matthew Turk is a member of the CITS faculty advisory committee. He is currently chair of the Media Arts and Technology program at UC Santa Barbara and is a faculty member of the UCSB Computer Science department. For more information see: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~mturk/


Computing has a long history. Modern-day computers are built upon ideas developed over the centuries by mathematicians such as Leibniz, Frege, Boole, Babbage, Hilbert and Turing. In this talk Professor Turk discusses several of the key individuals and their contributions to logic and computing that paved the way for the "universal machines" of today and tomorrow.