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Charles Babbage's table of logarithms (1827)
No full textIn 1827 Charles Babbage published his Table of logarithms of the natural numbers, from 1 to 108,000. His logarithms were generally considered to be the most accurate of his day and were reprinted on numerous occasions, well into the twentieth century. This paper describes Babbage's motivation for producing the tables, and the measures taken to ensure their accuracy. An assessment is given of Babbage's contribution to the art of table making
Beware the Cat (2018): Adapted from William Baldwin by Frances Babbage, Terry O’Connor and Rachel Stenner, introduced and edited for publication by Frances Babbage and Terry O’Connor
No full textWilliam Baldwin’s Beware the Cat was adapted for performance in 2018 by Frances Babbage, Terry O’Connor and Rachel Stenner, in collaboration with artist Penny McCarthy and the original cast. The full script from this performance is published here. Prefaced by a short commentary which contextualises the project and explains the strategies used to bring it to the stage, the main body of the script incorporates elements of creative documentation that seek to reflect the character of Beware the Cat as a live event. To this end, the co-authors mimic Baldwin’s use of marginalia and annotation in a commentary that runs parallel to the actors’ dialogue; additional visual and textual interventions on the page demonstrate the way in which the original performance consciously explored the power of contrasting expressive languages
Acts of Unsettling: An Immersive Adaptation of Berger and Mohr’s A Seventh Man
No full textThis article examines Michael Pinchbeck and Ollie Smith’s theatrical adaptation of A Seventh Man, the 1975 book by John Berger and photographer Jean Mohr studying the experience of migrant workers in Europe. Pinchbeck and Smith’s 2020 adaptation uses immersive performance strategies in dialogue with a multi-voiced, cross-disciplinary publication that itself aims to produce an immersive or ‘animated’ reader engagement. In this article, Babbage and Pinchbeck present source text and performance as examples of practice-as-research, referencing Nelson’s paradigm that establishes different modes of knowledge and points of connection- and dissension-between them. They discuss the book’s cross-disciplinarity and the attempt to reflect this in a new creative context that is spatiotemporal, embodied, social, visual, verbal and aural. The article’s theoretical context draws on writing by Barthes, Berger, Said and Sontag, applying Barthes’ notion of the studium and the punctum to reflect on the dramaturgical rendering of the source text’s ‘interruptive shocks’. Babbage and Pinchbeck argue that, in book and performance, the juxtaposition of different formal languages elicits an encounter with the material that is productively ‘unsettling’
La devianza nella scienza: alcuni riscontri e aggiornamenti alle Reflections di Charles Babbage sulle frodi scientifiche (1830)
No full textCharles Babbage (Londra 1791-1871) tenne la cattedra lucasiana di matematica a Cambridge, fondò la Società Statistica di Londra ed ebbe vari interessi. I suoi articoli scientifici e le sue monografie testimoniano che fu uno spirito enciclopedico. La sua opera più nota, un vero best-seller, s’intitola "On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures" (1832). Tuttavia, Babbage è soprattutto ricordato come padre del calcolatore programmabile in quanto progettò due Macchine alle Differenze e una Macchina Analitica. Acceso polemista, era critico nei confronti della stagnazione culturale della classe dirigente. Propose di riformare gli studi scientifici e la Royal Society. Nel 1830 pubblicò l’opera "Reflections on the decline of science in England" and on some of its causes in cui trattò anche le frodi scientifiche. Questo lavoro riprende la sua classificazione e discute alcuni esempi recenti, inclusi quelli di plagio, da lui trascurati
ON f-DERIVATIONS OF BCC-ALGEBRAS
No full textIn this paper, the notion of left-right and right-left f-derivation of a BCC-algebra is introduced, and some related properties are investigated. Also, we consider regular f-derivation and d-invariant on f-ideals in BCC-algebras
Oral history interview with Charles F. Crichton
No full textTranscript not available electronically. Please contact CBI.Crichton discusses the history of data services at Control Data Corporation.Crichton, Charles F.. (1981). Oral history interview with Charles F. Crichton. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/107232
Oral history interview with Leo F. Slattery
No full textTranscript not available electronically. Please contact CBI.Slattery describes the work environment for engineers at Control Data Corporation and discusses his work on the circuitry and logic for various Control Data computers.Slattery, Leo F.. (1982). Oral history interview with Leo F. Slattery. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/107634
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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