A virtual tour of computer science places.

The Polish Military Museum has en Engma machine on display. Biuro Szyfrów or the "Cipher Bureau" broke the German Enigma machine cipher and, over the next nearly seven years before World War II, overcame the growing structural and operating complexities of the plugboard-equipped Enigma. The Enigma would be the main German cipher device during the Second World War.

John von Neumann, mathmatician, computer scientist, engineer, game theorist, ... is born Budapest in 1903, in a wealthy non-practicing Jewish family.

Kurt Gödel, best known for his two incompleteness theorems, published it in 1931 when he was 25 years of age, one year after finishing his doctorate at the University of Vienna.

Kurt Gödel, the famous mathematician who made an immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century, was born in the city of Brno in 1906. Gödel is best known for his two incompleteness theorems, published in 1931 when he was 25 years of age.

Wilhelm Schickard, inventor and builder of the first calculating machines, is born in Herrenberg in 1592. Contemporaries called his machine the Speeding Clock or Calculating Clock.

Wilhelm Schickard, inventor of the first calculating machines, was educated at the University of Tübingen. He studied theology and oriental languages at Tübingen until 1613. In 1613 he became a Lutheran minister continuing his work with the church until 1619 when he was appointed professor of Hebrew at the University of Tübingen. Later on he was also appointed professor of astronomy. His research was broad and included astronomy, mathematics and surveying. He invented many machines such as one for calculating astronomical dates and one for Hebrew grammar. He made significant advances in mapmaking, producing maps which were far more accurate than those which were previously available at the time.

Wilhelm Schickard died of the bubonic plague in Tübingen, October 24 in 1635.

Arthur Scherbius, the inventor of the Enigma machine, is born in Frankfurt-am-Main in 1878. The Enigma machine has been used to generate ciphers for the encryption and decryption of secret messages in World War II.

Rue Jacquard is named after one of the major "sons" of Lyon: Joseph Marie Jacquard who is born her in 1752. He invented the Jacquard loom, a programmable weaving machine or loom.

Joseph Marie Jacquard died in Oullins in 1834. Jacquard was the inventor of the programmable loom.

The loom of Jacquad was an inspiration for Charles Babbage to create his "computer".

In the Musée des Arts et Métiers, you can see an early Pascaline on display. It is one of the first computers, designed by Blaise Pascal.

You also can see here the Loom of Jacquard, another predecessor of the computer.

In 1889, at the age of 19, the inventor and car manufacturer Léon Bollée, invented a calculation machine. The computer is on display in the Musée des arts et métiers in Paris.

He created his factory in Le Mans.

Charles Babbage is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery. You can still see his grave here. His brain is not here, because that's preserved at the Science Museum in London.

Charles Babbage died at age 79 on 18 October 1871.

On Bakerstreet was the Holmwood academy. Charles Babbage joined this academy. The academy had a well-stocked library that prompted Babbage's love of mathematics.

It was in this neighbourhood that Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, died in 1852, at the age of 36. She is today considered as the "first programmer" since she was writing programs for Charles Babbage's computer.

Also Charles Babbage died in this neighbourhood in 1871.

The Science Museum shows a copy of the Difference engine of Charles babbage. it is considered as one of the first computers.
In 1991 a perfectly functioning difference engine was constructed from Babbage's original plans.

The science museum also shows a water clock of Al-Jazari, a Muslim scholar, inventor and mechanical engineer who designed one of the first computers in 1206.

The birthplace of Charles Babbage is disputed, but he was most likely born in 44 Crosby Row, Walworth Road, on 26 December 1791.
You can find a blue plaque on the junction of Larcom Street and Walworth Road commemorating the event.

Alan Turing worked at the National Physical Laboratory, creating one of the first designs for a stored-program computer, the ACE, although it was never actually built in its full form.

During World War II, Bletchley Park was the site of the United Kingdom's main decryption establishment. During the Second World War, Turing worked at Bletchley Park.

Ada Byron, daughter of Lord Byron and colleague of Charles Babbage, lived in the now demolished Kirkby Hall during her childhood with her mother.

A tree in the grounds of Mallory Park is reputed to be where Lord Byron wrote some of his most famous work.

Mallory Park is a motor racing circuit. It is amongst the shortest permanent race circuits in the UK.

The circuit started life as a pony trotting circuit in the late 1940s, which defined the outline of the oval track still in use today.

In 1948, Alan Turing moved to the University of Manchester to work on the Manchester Mark 1, then emerging as one of the world's earliest true computers.

Around the age of eight, Charles Babbage was sent to the country school in Alphington to recover from a life-threatening fever.

For a short time Charles Babbage attended King Edward VI Grammar School in Totnes, but his health forced him back to private tutors for a time.

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The mathematician Kurt Gödel and his wife Adele spent the summer of 1942 in Blue Hill. Gödel was taking a vacation from Princeton University. During this holiday Gödel discovered essential aspects on his proof for the independence of the axiom of choice from finite type theory.

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Herman Hollerith, one of the godfathers of computers, entered the City College of New York in 1875.

John von Neumann worked at the Institute For Advanced Study in Princeton. He was invited here in 1930. From 1930 till his death in 1957, he was professor of mathematics here. Here he worked with Albert Einstein and Kurt Gödel.

John von Neumann is buried on the Cemetry of Princeton. He died in 1956. John von Neumann was diagnosed with cancer, possibly caused by exposure to radiation during his witnessing of atomic bomb tests he worked on.

Kurt Gödel is buried in the Princeton Cemetery.

The United States National Cryptologic Museum is a museum of cryptologic history, affiliated with the National Security Agency (NSA).
It has one of the first computers, the U.S. bombe used to decrypt the German Enigma machine during Wolrd War II..

John von Neumann died in the Walter Reed Army Medical Center a year and a half following the diagnosis of cancer. The cancer was probably caused by the radiation he got during the test of the atomic bomb explosion of the Manhattan project.

Herman Hollerith, one of the godfather of computers, developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards in order to rapidly tabulate statistics from millions of pieces of data. He died on November 17, 1929 of a heart attack and was buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery.

Large-scale automated data processing of punched cards was performed for the U.S. Census in 1890 by tabulating machines designed by Herman Hollerith and manufactured by the Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation, which later became IBM.

Los Alamos is home to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which was founded to undertake the Manhattan Project. The Manhattan Project was the project to develop the first atomic weapon during World War II. The scientific research was directed by American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. A principal member was John von Neumann.