Informatics

Charles Babbage in 1860

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The father of computer science Charles Babbage was born on December 26, 1791 in London, England. He’s remembered for designing the difference engine and the Analytical Engine, the first mechanical computer programmable to perform any kind of calculation.

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Since last spring a group of 23 manuscripts have been used for the first scanning test using the open source FITS format developed by ESA and NASA since the ’70s. Now they’ll proceed to the digitization of the other manuscripts for a total of about eighty thousand.