The Machine that Changed the World (1992)
- The Machine that Changed the World (1992)
"The Machine that Changed the World" (1992) is a 5-episode television series on the history of electronic digital computers. It was written and directed by Nancy Linde, and produced by WGBH Television of Boston, Massachusetts, and the British Broadcasting Corporation. Backers included the Association for Computing Machinery, the National Science Foundation, and the UNISYS Corporation.
The first three episodes deal with the history of fully electronic general-purpose digital computers from the ENIAC through desktop microcomputers. The pre-history of such machines is examined in the first episode, and includes a discussion of the contributions of Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, and others. The fourth episode explores the topic of artificial intelligence. The fifth episode explores the then-newly-emerging worldwide networking of computers.
External links
* [http://www.computinghistorymuseum.org/teaching/videos.htm Video resource guide at American University Computing History Museum]
* [http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/TMTCTW.html Episode synopses at Virginia Tech]
* [http://waxy.org/2008/06/the_machine_that_changed_the_world/ Synopsis of Episode 1 at waxy.org]
* [http://waxy.org/2008/06/the_machine_that_changed_the_world_inventing_the_future/ Synopsis of Episode 2 at waxy.org]
* [http://waxy.org/2008/06/the_machine_that_changed_the_world_the_paperback_computer/ Synopsis of Episode 3 at waxy.org]
* [http://waxy.org/2008/06/the_machine_that_changed_the_world_the_thinking_machine/ Synopsis of Episode 4 at waxy.org]
* [http://waxy.org/2008/06/the_machine_that_changed_the_world_the_world_at_your_fingertips/ Synopsis of Episode 5 at waxy.org]
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