Babbage Meets Zuse: A Minimal Mechanical Computer

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• 刊名：Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：9726
• 期：1
• 页码：25-34
• 全文大小：1,238 KB
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• 作者单位：Raúl Rojas (15)
  
  15. Department of Mathematics and CS, Freie Universität Berlin, Arinimallee 7, 14195, Berlin, Germany
  
• 丛书名：Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation
• ISBN：978-3-319-41312-9
• 刊物类别：Computer Science
• 刊物主题：Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
  Computer Communication Networks
  Software Engineering
  Data Encryption
  Database Management
  Computation by Abstract Devices
  Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity
  
• 出版者：Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
• ISSN：1611-3349
• 卷排序：9726

文摘

This paper shows how to build a computer consisting of a few mechanical elements. Two large gears are needed, one for the data, and another for the program memory. Only one logical computing element is required. The idea of a simple computer with minimal computing logic goes back to Konrad Zuse, who called it the “logic machine”. Charles Babbage was the first one to design a universal mechanical computer. Here, we combine Babbage’s gears and wooden pegs with Zuse’s idea.