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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
An Oral History Interview with Daniel J. Bernstein
No full textOral History Interview with Daniel J. Bernstein Conducted by Gerardo Con Diaz, University of California, Davis.This oral history interview is sponsored by NSF 2202484, “Mining a Usable Past: Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy,” at the Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. The interview is with Daniel J. Bernstein, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Bernstein reflects on his early life in New York, his formative exposure to mathematics and computer science, and his long-standing interest in cryptographic security. He discusses his work in algorithm design, the development of crypto-graphic tools, and his legal challenge to U.S. export controls on encryption. The interview explores his views on academic freedom, adversarial design, and the relationship between crypto-graphic practice and public interest.National Science FoundationBernstein , Daniel J.. (2025). An Oral History Interview with Daniel J. Bernstein. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/274366
Woodhouse, babbage, peacock, and modern Algebra
No full textAbstractIn a recent article, J. M. Dubbey [Historia Mathematica 4 (1977), 295–302] showed that George Peacock's A Treatise on Algebra (1830) was similar to an unpublished work written by Charles Babbage in 1821. Evidently perplexed about the absence of a dispute over priority, Dubbey concluded that Peacock had unconsciously assimilated Babbage's ideas, and that Babbage was too busy with other activities to be concerned. The thesis of this article is that the innovative aspects of the work of both Babbage and Peacock are extensions of ideas put forth in 1803 by Robert Woodhouse, and that probably neither Babbage nor Peacock was overly concerned with acknowledgments because their approach to algebra was not unique at Cambridge
THE SCIENTIFIC LIBRARY OF CHARLES BABBAGE
No full textA description of the history, contents, and present
location of the scientific library of Charles Babbage. The contents are classified
under 21 headings. Babbage is shown to have had an interest in the collection
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Charles Babbage Institute: FastLane Oral History Public Archive
No full textThe interview transcripts are here stored in two files: in-person.zip and on-line.zip. The in-person interviews are identified by PROJECT_INSTITUTION_NAME_DATE. For example FL_NDSU_SlangerM_2008-04-28 is an interview done for the FastLane project at North Dakota State University with Marie Slanger on 28 April 2008, while FL_NSF_CovertK_2011-02-15 is a FastLane interview done at NSF with Katharine Covert on 15 February 2011. Alphabetized in a directory, it is easy to group the universities together or to identify a specific person at NSF.
We asked on-line interviewees to choose one of three roles (NSF, PI, or Sponsored Projects) but we could not be positive of their institutional affiliations. These interviews are identified by ROLE_Interview_AnswersNUMBER. For example, PI_Interview_Answers313public is PI interview number 313 (where this number was a database index number ranging from 300 to 800). Most interviewees, but not all, readily identified their universities.This archive of oral histories provides a large dataset on the design, development, and use of the National Science Foundation's FastLane computer system. FastLane was developed in the 1990s and made mandatory for agency-wide submission of proposals in October 2000; it became NSF's core system used in all phases of grants management. With support from NSF's Human Centered Computing program (details below), researchers at the Charles Babbage Institute (principally Jeffrey Yost and Thomas Misa) conducted extensive oral histories during 2008 to 2011. More than 400 in-person interviews were conducted with NSF staff and managers as well as university researchers, sponsored projects staff, and administrators during site visits at 29 universities. In addition to traditional in-person interviews, the research team designed and built an online interview platform that permitted an additional 400 online (self-directed) interviews. Around 80 percent of our 800 interviewees agreed to make their responses available to the public, the basis for this public dataset of 643 interviews.National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0811988, "Designing and Using FastLane: Distilling Lessons for Cyberinfrastructures."Special thanks to NSF Historian Marc Rothenberg; to CBI research assistants Joline Zepcevski, Joshua Welsh, Siddhartha Shanker, and Jonathan Clemens; and to CBI's administrative assistant Katie Charlet, who organized this online archive.This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0811988, "Designing and Using FastLane: Distilling Lessons for Cyberinfrastructures." This project description as well as links to all interviews both in-person and online can be found at www.cbi.umn.edu/oh/fastlane.Misa, Thomas J; Yost, Jeffrey R. (2015). Charles Babbage Institute: FastLane Oral History Public Archive. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, http://dx.doi.org/10.13020/D6RG6B
Dalla macchina di Babbage alla Ethereum Virtual Machine di Buterin
No full textSi illustra la storia dell'informatica enfatizando lo sviluppo del computer dall'idea di algoritmo e macchina di Babbage arrivando alla moderna idea della Ethereum Virtual Machine e gli smart contracts
An Oral History Interview with Daniel J. Solove
No full textOral History Interview with Daniel J. Solove Conducted by Gerardo Con Diaz, University of California, DavisThis oral history interview is sponsored by NSF 2202484, “Mining a Usable Past: Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy,” at the Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. The interview is with Daniel J. Solove, Eugene L. and Barbara Bernard Professor of Intellectual Property and Technology Law at the George Washington University Law School. Solove reflects on his early life in Pennsylvania, his education at Washington University in St. Louis and Yale Law School, and his career trajectory from judicial clerkship to legal academia. He discusses the origins and evolution of his scholarship on privacy, including his taxonomy of privacy harms, his work on data protection, and his interest in bridging legal theory and practical policy. The interview covers his role in shaping privacy law as a discipline, his efforts to influence public and institutional understanding through writing, teaching, and consulting, and his perspectives on regulatory frameworks in the U.S. and Europe. He concludes with reflections on academic impact, interdisciplinary engagement, and the future of privacy scholarship.National Science FoundationSolove, Daniel J.. (2025). An Oral History Interview with Daniel J. Solove. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/274367
Staging Angela Carter
No full textBabbage considers the challenges of staging Angela Carter’s ‘The Bloody Chamber’ and ‘The Company of Wolves’. Discussing several contemporary productions, Babbage shows that while Carter’s Gothic iconography has been effectively represented, theatre adaptations have struggled to sustain the fluidity of position that is equally important in her work. Referencing examples from 18th and 19th century drama, and the insistence of Burke and Radcliffe that terror requires obscurity and ‘boundlessness’, Babbage examines treatments of Carter in non-theatre sites. Grid Iron’s The Bloody Chamber, a promenade production in Edinburgh catacombs, and Burn the Curtain’s The Company of Wolves, a night-time performance in woodland, exploit the potential of space, proximity and obscurity; both adaptations thereby structure a relationship to Carter’s writing that is exciting, unsettling and potentially liberating
CD27 in defining memory B-cell origins in Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia
No full textCD27 is a tumor necrosis factor receptor family glycoprotein, identified in seminal studies as an apparently robust marker for normal memory B cells. Somatic hypermutation (SHM) in immunoglobulin variable (V) region genes, however, remains the definitive memory imprint. In Waldenström's macroglobulinemia (WM), SHM defines a predominant mutated (MUT) subset and a minor unmutated subset indicative of naive B-cell origin. In MUT-WM, tumor cells can lack CD27 expression, raising suggestions of unusual memory B-cell origins. We recently identified such normal IgM+D+CD27-ve memory B-cells, with low levels of SHM in VH genes. While these could seed WM, the possibility remains that WM could derive from classical memory B cells that shed CD27. The utility of CD27 expression in defining memory in MUT-WM origins, then, is uncertain, but SHM unequivocally defines memory B-cell derivation in most WM. Patterns of SHM and additional IgH locus events furthermore reveal ongoing intra-tumoral diversification in W
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