Paper Dancers: Art as Information in Twentieth-Century America

Laemmli, Whitney E.

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“…Mahoney diagnosed a tendency to "prematurely unite [the computer's] multiple historical sources into a single stream, treating Charles 5 Ursula Klein influentially described chemical notations as "paper tools" [40]. For other studies of notations as tools in the history of science, see [38], [42], [32], [19]. 6 See [41], [59], [21], [43].…”

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The Work of Writing Programs: Logic and Inscriptive Practice in the History of Computing

Dunning¹

2021

IEEE Annals Hist. Comput.

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This article explores the entanglement of logic and computing by focusing on the activity of writing. Though mathematical logic is sometimes cast as the immaterial spirit of the computer's material body, the study of logic also takes place in the physical world through the manipulation of symbols on paper. Already in the nineteenth century, mathematical logic was understood to be related to mechanization, though not as the science behind an as-yet-uninvented technology. Rather, symbolic notations were seen as tools that opened possibilities but required new kinds of work. Turning to early electronic computing in the 1950s, I observe that researchers similarly relied on novel inscriptive techniques to mitigate labor. Finally, considering Charles Hamblin's Reverse Polish Notation, I show how logic was a source of notational invention, emerging as a practical resource for the work of writing programs independently of its role as a plausible theoretical foundation for computer science. THE PRECISE nature of the connection between logic and electronic computing has long proved elusive and at times controversial. Already in the earliest attempts to plan ENIAC's successor, a now well-known rift opened between the mathematicians who proudly publicized their plans for the logical design of a new machine and the engineers who insisted that the machine's decisive innovations were rather in the realm of electrical engineering [12,[71][72][73][74][75][76][77][78][79][80][81]]. An analogous fault-line later came to organize many influential efforts to think historically about computing. Michael Mahoney formulated a classic logical-technological bifurcation that remains compelling:The dual nature of the computer is reflected in its dual origins: hardware in the sequence of devices that stretches from the Pascaline to the ENIAC, software in the series of investigations that reaches from Leibniz's combinatorics to Turing's abstract machines. Until the two strands come together in the computer, they belong to different histories, the electronic calculator to the history DRAFT SUBMISSION for IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

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The Work of Writing Programs: Logic and Inscriptive Practice in the History of Computing

Dunning¹

2021

IEEE Annals Hist. Comput.

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Culture and the Use of Information Understanding in the Field of National Security (A Case Study of Ukraine)

Belkin

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Сопілко

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For the first time the article substantiates the informational understanding of culture on the basis of a systematic interdisciplinary approach and takes into account the information content as such and cultural content in the dialectical unity of information flows, including hostile, with further proposals for such information understanding. in the national security of Ukraine and democracies. The connection of relations in the sphere of culture, on the one hand, and in information, on the other hand, at the theoretical level, in normative regulation and in practical activity is established. Theoretically, based on the principle of evolutionism, it should be assumed that the information exchange, genetically determined, between individuals of the animal world occurs in the pre-human period. In the process of evolution and anthropogenesis, the result of cultural work is the creation, processing, assimilation, dissemination and transmission of information that has a non-biological, non-genetic nature. The objectivity of the relationship between relations in the field of culture, on the one hand, and relations in the field of information, on the other, creates appropriate relations at the level of administrative and legal regulation of these relations. This unity of administrative and legal regulation makes it possible to determine, by means of the same or similar principles, the legality of restrictions or the absence of grounds for such restrictions and on the basis of the principles of the 1950 European Convention. For the first time, from the point of view of the requirements of the European Court of Human Rights, the legality of restrictions on the introduction into the Ukrainian information space of information and cultural product of the Russian Federation as an aggressor waging an information war against Ukraine was analyzed and substantiated.

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Paper Dancers: Art as Information in Twentieth-Century America

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The Work of Writing Programs: Logic and Inscriptive Practice in the History of Computing

The Work of Writing Programs: Logic and Inscriptive Practice in the History of Computing

Culture and the Use of Information Understanding in the Field of National Security (A Case Study of Ukraine)

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