A monument for al-Khwarizmi in Khiva, Uzbekistan.
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Our modern lives are influenced by algorithms at every step. We can trace this influence back more than 1,200 years ago – to a Muslim mathematician.
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I’m hunting for the woman whose use of an early chatbot turned the inventor against his creation.
The original Macintosh computer may seem quaint today, but the way users interacted with it triggered a revolution 40 years ago.
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Apple’s phenomenal success and the field of user experience design can be traced back to the launch of the Macintosh personal computer.
Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, was more than just another mathematician.
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Lovelace was a prodigious math talent who learned from the giants of her time, but her linguistic and creative abilities were also important in her invention of computer programming.