Babbage's dream
By: Neil Aitken
Publisher: Sundress Publications
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Oak Ridge, Tennessee]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 83
ISBN-13: 9781939675477
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: In literature; American poetry; Poésie américaine; Literature
Table of contents: title: Begin; title: Assembly; title: Array; title: Cast; title: Babbage in love, 1811; title: Loop; title: Encapsulation; title: Float; title: Babbage, waking beside Georgiana, considers the moon, 1815; title: Short; title: Double; title: Babbage at his desk, enumerating the known world; title: Frankenstein's creature bids farewell to its maker; title: Break; title: Operator; title: Alpha 60 speaks of fear; title: Pointer; title: Babbage, troubled by vision at his wife's grave, 1827; title: Memory; title: The mechanical Turk, encircled by flames, faces its end; title: Babbage descending into Mt. Vesuvius, 1828; title: Binary; title: Recursion; title: Babbage attempting to solve for the unknown; title: Include; title: Extern; title: Babbage, backstage at a performance of Don Giovanni, finds himself caught between heaven and hell; title: Case; title: Free; title: Comment; title: Babbage explaining God and the machine; title: Void; title: HAL 9000, a few thoughts before singing; title: Long; title: Babbage, circumnavigating the room, encounters Ada, 1833; title: Variable; title: Object; title: Babbage reflecting on the cruelty of man, 1835; title: Conditional; title: Babbage departing Turin by coach, 1840; title: Compile; title: Deep blue confesses; title: List; title: Babbage sending messages to Ada, now gone, 1852; title: Babbage in Carroll in the silent workshop, 1867; title: Return; title: Babbage, closing his eyes, 1871; title: Leviathan speaks to Babbage at the end.