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<div class="">I am impressed by the diversity of suggestions from the community, also about that German book about roboters.</div>
<div class="">Thinking about the German discourse, this paper by Konrad Zuse from 1939 could be of interest: </div>
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<div class="csl-entry"><span style="font-variant:small-caps;" class="">Zuse</span>, Konrad: „<i class="">Calculator for Technical and Scientific Calculations Designed According to a Theoretical Plan</i>“ 1939.</div>
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<div class="">Am 17.03.2022 um 15:58 schrieb Evan Koblentz <<a href="mailto:evank@njit.edu" class="">evank@njit.edu</a>>:</div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">I’m interested in a new-to-me research angle: the people who changed computing by writing about it.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Lovelace comes to mind. So do Vannevar Bush and Edmund Berkeley.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Are there existing papers on this subject?<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li></ol>
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