Chapter ID: CBB000102777

Charles Babbage, the Analytical Engine, and the Possibility of a 19th-Century Cognitive Science (2001)

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Description Questions the claim that Babbage or Ada Byron Lovelace thought his “analytical engine” capable of human-like thought.


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Book Green, Christopher D.; Shore, Marlene Gay; Teo, Thomas (2001) Transformation of Psychology: Influences of 19th Century Philosophy, Technology, and Natural Science. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Stein, Dorothy K.
Campbell-Kelly, Martin
Bromley, Allan G.
David McQuillan
Brian Coghlan
Reddy O'Regan
Journals
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Victorian Studies
Technikgeschichte: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Technik und Industrie
Scientific American
Historia Mathematica
Publishers
Syracuse University
Springer
Oxford University Press
MIT Press
Bodleian Library
Concepts
Computers and computing
Technology
Biographies
Computer science
Human-machine interaction
Analytical Engine
People
Babbage, Charles
Lovelace, Ada, Countess of
Turing, Alan Mathison
Wiener, Norbert
Ludgate, Percy E.
Licklider, Joseph C. R.
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
Early modern
Modern
Places
England
Institutions
Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota
Smithsonian Institution
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