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1st Edition
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- Artists
- Schmickle, Denny
 - Bands
- Nein, The
- Femme Generation
- Haunches, The
- Edition Details
| Year: | 2005 | | Class: | Poster | | Status: | Official | | Technique: | Screen Print | | Paper: | 110lb French Smart White | | Size: | 12.5 X 19 | | Markings: | Signed & Numbered |
- EB Awards
- Nominate Now
- Venues
- Starlight - Waterloo, ON, CAN
- Event
- 6/11
- Comments
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The text at the bottom is about George Stibitz (pictured), inventor of the first electronic digital computer. It reads:
"At about the same time as Claude Shannon was working on his masters thesis on Boolean algebra and electronic circuitry, George Stibitz, a Bell Labs researcher, had a similar thought.
The result was the prototype binary adder circuit - an electromechanical circuit that controlled binary addition. Stibitz incorporated his new circuitry into his Model K (the K standing for - appropriately, if less than imaginatively - Kitchen) digital calculator.
Stibitz took his circuit back to Bell Labs and over the next two years, working in conjunction with Samuel Williams, devised a machine that could calculate all four basic mathematical functions with complex numbers.
The Complex Number Calculator (later re-named the Bell Labs Model Relay Computer), came to be widely recognised as the world's first electronic digital computer."
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