A century of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, 1882-1982
A century of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, 1882-1982
The computer from Pascal to von Neumann
The computer from Pascal to von Neumann
Real recursive functions and their hierarchy
Journal of Complexity
Computability of analog networks
Theoretical Computer Science
The development of computer science: a sociocultural perspective
Proceedings of the 6th Baltic Sea conference on Computing education research: Koli Calling 2006
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The technological, professional, and intellectual context out of which the development of the continuous integraph or product integraph-as the immediate forerunner of Vannevar Bush's differential analyzer-evolved is outlined. In particular the affinity between transmission line research and teaching at MlT's electrical engineering department under Bush's guidance, on the one hand, and the creation of the product integraph for evaluating integrals, which resulted from the appropriate differential equations of the transmission problems, on the other hand, is detailed. I emphasize Bush's perception of promoting engineering by easing the applied mathematics in this field as it appeared in his contribution to the development of operational circuit analysis as an appropriate engineering mathematics as well as in creating analog machinery that was inspired by the formulation of transmission line problems in terms of that very operational methods after Oliver Heaviside