10 Feb
2015
10 Feb
'15
8:22 p.m.
On 02/10/2015 07:52 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
Now, my freshman adviser at Washington University was
William Papian,
the grad student who worked with Jay Forrester on coincident current
core memory! Wow, talk about something that REALLY affected the
development of computers!
Any more so, than, say, William Gardner Pfann?
The point is that I believe that inventions have their "time", wherein a
bunch of seemingly unrelated discoveries come to incubate a great leap
forward in knowledge.
Which is why Galileo didn't invent television or stored-program computers.
--Chuck