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Photos: The top tech sites on Google Street View
Photo And here is the plaque on the former home of Charles Babbage, on Dorset Street, Marylebone (the beige house in the centre) - the man who invented the machine Lovelace wrote programs for. Google has launched its Street... [20 Mar 2009]
Tech in pictures: The best of 2008
Photo The same month, Charles Babbage's Difference Engine number 2 made its US debut at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Fast forward 150 years, and an impassioned Babbage expert and... [11 Dec 2008]
Woolworths slashes costs with supply chain tech
Case Study Photos: Babbage's Difference masterpiece in action High street retailer Woolworths has streamlined its distribution with supply chain management (SCM) software from long established partner SAP. Speaking at SAP's... [02 Jun 2008]
Beijing Olympics, Google Earth, BlackBerry Bold and more
Photo Charles Babbage's Difference Engine number 2 is making its US debut at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Fast forward 150 years, and an impassioned Babbage expert and wealthy... [30 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... dirty computers, lie detectors, T5 tech, mobile ASBOs
Comment ¦ The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group ¦ Peter Cochrane's Blog: A petabyte before I die.¦ Photos: Babbage's Difference masterpiece in action This week, readers get worked up over rude mobile users - should... [15 May 2008]
Photos: Babbage's Difference masterpiece in action
Photo Charles Babbage's Difference Engine number 2 is making its US debut at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. A forward-thinking mathematician and engineer, Babbage designed the... [12 May 2008]
Caption Competition: Babbage baggage!
Photo This competition is now closed. The winning caption, from reader Paul Harding was "You think the computer's big? Wait 'til you see the monitor! Photo credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET News.com [02 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... XP lives, the femtocell 'truth', BlackBerry bashing…
Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport insecurity ¦ Video Cheat Sheet: Data Breaches ¦ Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain ¦ India's high-tech... [01 May 2008]
India's high-tech cities, web whispers, Babbage's Difference engine and more...
Photo Tech millionaire Nathan Myhrvold commissioned London's Science Museum to make him a version of Charles Babbage's famous Difference engine, a machine designed to mechanically calculate polynomial functions. [29 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... File-sharers, women in tech and the price of 'experts'
Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive ¦ FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat ¦... [17 Apr 2008]
Photos: Charles Babbage's masterpiece reincarnated
Photo Tech millionaire Nathan Myhrvold commissioned London's Science Museum to make him a version of Charles Babbage's famous Difference engine, a machine designed to mechanically calculate polynomial functions. [10 Apr 2008]
Editor's Blog: The pyramids versus Macclesfield
Comment Or the birthplace of Charles Babbage, the Victorian mathematician and computer pioneer? A couple of new destinations to add to your holiday list: after you've visited the pyramids and the Taj Mahal, how about Jodrell... [23 Jan 2008]
Christie's flogs off the history of IT
News Among the pieces that will be going under the hammer in the 'Origins of Cyberspace' sale will be first editions of works from the father of the computer, Charles Babbage. For around $15,000, bidders can get their hands... [02 Feb 2005]
Through the fog… Management of utility IT
Comment Some smaller companies such as Boole and Babbage, Candle and Tivoli were also setting out their stalls. Quocirca's Jon Collins provides some practical advice for those considering one of IT's big questions… [01 Aug 2003]
Tim Berners Lee: inventor of the World Wide Web
News Charles Babbage, Alan Turing and Tim Berners Lee have all been shortlisted by a nationwide survey, conducted by the BBC, to find the greatest ever Briton. To read more about Charles Babbage: "The Father... [22 Aug 2002]
