How forward-thinking engineers went to create the first digital computers

The decisive contribution of Claude Shannon to computer science

Jean-marc Buchert
UX Collective
Published in
6 min readJun 21, 2021

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At the start of the 20th century, researchers and engineers heavily relied on analog devices to create computing machines. They sought to replicate human intelligence by harnessing physical and “natural” forces.

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