If you were captivated by Richard Frisch’s forward-looking seminar on artificial intelligence, come hear his fascinating look-back at a titan of technology, Charles Babbage, on Friday, April 1, at 1. Born in 1791, Babbage was a British mathematician, an original and innovative thinker and a pioneer of computing. “No man in history has been more ahead of his time,” says Frisch. While the recent movie, The Imitation Game, positions Alan Turing as the inventor of digital computing during World War II, Frisch asserts that Babbage revolutionized mechanical computation in the early stages of the Industrial Revolution, inventing two incredible calculating engines and a mechanical general purpose programmable computer almost a century earlier than Turing. Babbage’s acolyte, Ada Lovelace, is often referred to as the world’s first programmer.
Babbage was a polymath who studied, wrote and published books on many subjects including manufacturing, economics, theology, and scientific education. In his pursuit of the mechanical computer, he invented methods for mechanical drafting, precision engineering, metallurgy, printing and much more. Frisch will bring to life Babbage’s genius, creativity, invention, personal loss and failure in this seminar. A graduate of Duke and Harvard universities, Frisch has had a long career in financial services and was part of the Citicorp team that developed ATM machines in the mid-1970s. He currently runs a tech support firm that serves small business throughout the greater New York area and is the chief technology officer for a New York City law firm.
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