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A course in Computing

The people who built computing as we practise it, in the order they arrived.

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Gave the world algebra and, through his own name, the algorithm.

Calculus notation we still use, and binary arithmetic.

Wrote the first algorithm intended for a machine and saw computing beyond numbers.

Computer architecture, game theory, quantum foundations.

Built the first compiler and made programming languages English-like.

Built the first programmable digital computer, the Z3, in 1941.

Defined what a computer is, then was destroyed by the country he saved.

Information theory: the bit, and the mathematics of all digital communication.

Wrote the web and gave it away for nothing.