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Fundamental Algorithms
252
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254

Fujitsu
33

Galileo
111
,
216

Galison, P.
8
n

game playing
235

game theory
108
,
167

Gaussian elimination method
95

general purpose computer
58
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63
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71
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85
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90
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91
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103
,
104
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173
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191

general symbol processor
228

geometry
44
,
225

Gerlenter, H.
235
,
240
n

German Aeronautical Research Institute
75

Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanic (GAMM)
205
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209

Giant Brains, or Machines That Think
171
,
227

Gill, S.
146
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149
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150
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152
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154
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155
n
,
156
n
,
169
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178
,
280
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281
,
289

Ginsberg, S.
223
n

Glass, R.L.
221
n

Glennie, A.
195
,
196

goal
3
,
9
,
60
,
61

goal-driven
227

Gödel, K.
46
,
47
,
48
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55
,
59
,
91
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289

Gold, T.
122

Goldberg, R.
221
n

Goldstine, A.
97
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104
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107
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109
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129
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283
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289

Goldstine, H.H.
15
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41
n
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42
n
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80
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91
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93
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97
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99
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103
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104
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105
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106
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107
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108
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109
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110
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115
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117
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121
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127
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129
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129
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130
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131
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133
n
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135
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137
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139
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143
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146
n
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147
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150
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169
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178
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190
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191
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193
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196
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271
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283
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289

Gombrich, E.H.
114
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131
n

Good, I.J.
77
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78
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82
n

Gorman, M.
8
n

Goto statement
208
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266

Gould, S.J.
26
n
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105
n
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155
n

grammar
212
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214
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246

grammar as a machine
246
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247

Great Chain of Being
282

Green, J.
222
n

Greenberg, J.H.
176
n

Greibach, S.
223
n

Gries, D.G.
276
n

Gruber, H.E.
285
n

Guide to FORTRAN Programming
280

Gutting, G.
88
n

Haeckel, E.
99

Haibit, L.M.
221
n

Hamilton, F.E.
69

Hamlet
217

hardware
146
,
149
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150
,
255

hardware language (Algol)
206

Hardy, G.H.
77
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266
,
275
n

harmonic analyzer
92

Harper, M.H.
220
n

Harrison, E.
8
n

Hartley, D.F.
viii
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149

Hartmanis, J.
261
n
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263
n

Hartree, D.R.
120
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123
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173
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177
n
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289

Harvard Mark I
69
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70
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71
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73
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74
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89
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90
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129
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134
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141
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203

Harvard Mark II
73
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74
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89

Harvard University
68
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217
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244

Hawking, S.
10

Heisenberg, W.
47

Hero of Alexander
39
,
40

Herrick, H.
220
n
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221
n

Herschel, C.
24

Herschel, J.
10
,
11
,
24

Herschel, W.
24

Hesse, M.B.
26
n
,
131
n

heuristic
225
–
235

heuristic problem solving
266

heuristic programming
230

heuristic reasoning
225
–
235

heuristic search
230
,
242

Hewett, M.
132
n

hierarchical design
268
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269
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272

hierarchical structure
139
,
268
–
269

high level programming language
192
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196
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201
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202
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247
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255
,
260

Hilbert, D.
44
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47
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49
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289

Hilbert's axioms
45

Hilbert's program
45
,
46
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58
,
76

Hilbert's second problem
44
,
45

Hilbert's tenth problem
47

Hilbert's third problem
49
,
55

Hills, R.L.
16
n
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26
n

Hinds, J.A.
189
n

history of computing
28
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29
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30
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34
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56
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58
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78
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84
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128
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166
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184
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196

History of Mathematical Notation
217

history of programming
252

Hixon Symposium on Cerebral Mechanisms in Behavior
161

Hoare formula
274
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275

Hoare logic
273
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275

Hoare, C.A.R.
273
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275
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276
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289

Hodges, H.
43
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59
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82
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130
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131
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Holland, J.
26
n

Hollerith system
68
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149

Hollerith, H.
30
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31
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33
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41
n
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68
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87
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134
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149
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289

Holmes, R.
16
n
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27
n

Holy Grail of computing
71
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74
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83
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90
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112

Holyoak, K.J.
26
n

Homunculus
183

Honeywell Corporation
102

Hooke, R.
128

Hopcroft, J.E.
245
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261
n
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263
n

Hopgood, F.R.A.
221
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262
n

Hopper, G.M.
69
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70
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71
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81
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85
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141
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147
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203
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204
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222
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283
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290

Horning, J.J.
262
n

host machine
250

How to Solve It
225

Howlett, J.S.
82
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88
n
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105
n
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130
n
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131
n
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219
n

Huffman, D.A.
261

Hughes, R.A.
221
n

Hughes, T.P.
260
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264
n

human cognition
232

human intelligence
229

human problem solving
72
,
233

human–human communication
191
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192
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201
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205
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206
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216

human–machine communication
191
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192
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205
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206
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216

human–machine symbiosis
33
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152
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154

hydrodynamics
109

hydrogen bomb
104

hypothesis
120
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151

IAS computer project
108
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127
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137
,
179

IBM channel
256

IBM Hursley Laboratory
186

IBM OS/360 operating system
259
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260
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266

IBM plugboard relay machines
129

IBM Pluggable Sequence Relay Calculator
74

IBM Poughkeepsie Laboratory
235

IBM Selectric Sequence Electronic Calculator
74

IBM SHARE group
197

IBM System/360 series of computers
186
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218
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219
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250
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251
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257
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258

IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
218

IBM 082 sorter
136

IBM 085 collator
136

IBM 407 accounting machine
31

IBM 601 multiplier
101

IBM 650 computer
236

IBM 701 computer
185
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195
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198
,
228
,
235

IBM 704 computer
185
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195
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198
,
236

IBM 709 computer
206
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257

IBM 7094 computer
257

iconoscope
117

ideation
13

identifier
209

IEEE Computer Society
280

IF statement
199

If then else statement
208
,
272

IFIP Congress
207

Iliffe, J.K.
263
n

Illinois Institute of Technology
226

imaginary number
61

imitation game
172

implementation
6
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7
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12
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13
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15
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21
,
86
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87
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96
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97
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104
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109
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110
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111
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112
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126
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141
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146
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183
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201
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216
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219
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250
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267
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281
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282

Incompleteness Theorem (Gödel)
47
,
49

index card
21
,
22

index number
37

index register
22
,
125

inductive loop
138

Industrial Revolution
9
,
256

infinite automaton
245

Informatik
241
,
278

information
35
,
40
,
165

Information & Control
280

information science
278

information processing
233
,
235

information processing factory
256

Information Processing Language (IPL)
236

information storage and retrieval
281

information structure
192

information technology
126

information theory
65
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165
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166
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167
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233
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280

informatique
241
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278

Ingermann, P.Z.
223
n
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262
n

initial orders
144
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145
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151
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153

input
74
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103
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123
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125
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179
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244

input device
85
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97
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126
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144

input/output processor
256

Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton (IAS)
46
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58
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91
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108
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127
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179

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
39
,
280

Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE)
171
,
280

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