Computer pioneer Percy Ludgate is not a household name like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs — but a team of researchers based at Trinity College Dublin has set about changing that, writes Kevin O'Neill.
Charles Babbage is renowned worldwide as the designer of the first programmable mechanical computer, in 1834. Babbage’s “Analytical Engine” was designed to solve any equation by simply cranking a ...
At an international maths conference in Edinburgh in July 1914, a remarkable Irishman made an astonishing claim. Percy Ludgate, born in Skibbereen and then living in Drumcondra in Dublin, described a ...
Computer pioneer Percy Ludgate is not a household name like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs — but a team of researchers based at Trinity College Dublin has set about changing that, writes Kevin O'Neill.