We can trace back at least to the early 17th century when mathematicians such as Wilhelm Schickhard, Blaise Pascal, and Gottfried Leibnitz designed machines that could solve mathematical problems such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. ... In 1623 Wilhelm Schickhard invented the calculating clock. ... It was then in the 1670's that Gottfried Melanie Kizziar Leibnitz attempted to multiply mechanically. ...
Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the area of computer science focusing on creating machines that can engage on behaviors that humans consider intelligent. The ability to create intelligent machines has intrigued humans since ancient times and today with the advent of the computer and ...
Computing machines can be dated back to the advent of the abacus, a wooden rack holding two horizontal wires with beads strung across them. Several different types of arithmetic operations could be performed when these beads were manipulated. Another early calculator, later called Napier's Bones, ...
