Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Digital Electronics, Differential Analyser, Analogue Electronics
17 Apr 2014
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Ada lovelace (1815-1852): worked on babbage"s early machine/general purpose computer the. Analytical engine: her notes include what is recognized as the first algorithm intended to be carried out by a machine, often described as worlds first computer programmer, had vision of computers going beyond mere calculating or number- crunching. Claude shannon: quantified information, explained how symbols of communication are transmitted and how symbols convey meaning. Information is defined by its relation to noise (i. e. what threatens to distort or corrupt it) **important to measure the amount of information/entropy in the message in order to determine the minimum channel capacity required to reliably transmit the encoded message. Symbolic logic and switching theory: a symbolic analysis of relay and switching circuits (1938, claude. Shannon: shannon showed that boolean algebra can describe the operation of switching circuits. 1st wave is the settled agricultural society. 4th wave- how our technology makes us feel about ourselves- more personal/semantic.
