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Picture of William Jevons

William Jevons was born this month!

Born: September 1, 1835

William Stanley Jevons was one of the most important economists and logicians of the 19th century. He helped bring scientific and mathematical process and rigour to the field of economics. Jevons also contributed to the field of computer science, in 1866 he designed and built the Logic Piano an early analogue computer.

Birthplace: Liverpool, United Kingdom 🇬🇧

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Luigi Federico Menabrea was born this month!

Born: September 4, 1809

Luigi Federico Menabrea was the Prime Minister of Italy 1867-1869 and wrote the first description of Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine "Notions sur la machine analytique de M. Charles Babbage" in 1842. His publication on Babbage's engine was translated into English and extended by Ada Lovelace in 1843.

Birthplace: Chambery, France 🇫🇷

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Martin Wiberg was born this month!

Born: September 4, 1826

Martin Wiberg was a Swedish inventor and computer pioneer. In 1859 he built a difference engine the size of a sewing machine which could print logarithmic tables. His invention was inspired by the work of Per Georg Scheutz and Charles Babbage.

Birthplace: Viby, Kristianstad, Scania, Sweden 🇸🇪

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Dennis Ritchie was born this month!

Born: September 9, 1941

Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was an American computer scientist. He is known for creating the C programming language and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system and B programming language.

Birthplace: Bronxville, New York, USA 🇺🇸

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Edvard Scheutz was born this month!

Born: September 13, 1821

Edvard Georg Raphael Scheutz was a Swedish engineer and designer of calculating machines . Following the ideas of Charles Babbage , he and his father Georg Scheutz built the first functional difference machine that was actually used, was commercially available and was intended for the creation of mathematical tables with a connected printer.

Birthplace: Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪

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Per Georg Scheutz was born this month!

Born: September 23, 1785

Per Georg Scheutz was a Swedish inventor who designed and constructed the Scheutzian Calculation Engine between 1837 and 1843 with his son Edvard Scheutz. The engine was based on Charles Babbage's Difference Engine, and while much simpler in design Scheutz managed to construct and sell several engines.

Birthplace: Sweden 🇸🇪

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Seymour Cray was born this month!

Born: September 28, 1925

Seymour Roger Cray was an American electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded Cray Research which built many of these machines. Called "the father of supercomputing", Cray has been credited with creating the supercomputer industry.

Birthplace: Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, USA 🇺🇸

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Kathleen Booth died this month.

Died: September 29, 2022

Kathleen Hylda Valerie Booth was a British computer scientist who wrote the first assembly language and designed the assembler and autocode for the first computer systems at Birkbeck College, University of London. During her career she helped design three different computers the ARC (Automatic Relay Calculator), SEC (Simple Electronic Computer), and APE(X)C.

Birthplace: Stourbridge, United Kingdom 🇬🇧