Charles Babbage: http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Babbage.html

  http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/on-line/babbage/index.asp

Lady Augusta Ada, Countess of Lovelace: http://www.well.com/user/adatoole/bio.htm

  http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html

Electricity: http://www.mediaeng.com/historyelect.html (beautifully written pocket history of

  electricity & magnetism)

Herman Hollerith: http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Hollerith.html

Howard Aiken & The Harvard Mark I: http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Aiken.html

Alan Turing: http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Turing.html

John Vincent Atanasoff: http://www.cs.iastate.edu/jva/books/mollenhoff/overview.shtml

Biographies of Atanasoff and Clifford Berry: http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/ABC/Biographies.html

J. Presper Eckert: http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Eckert_John.html

John Mauchly: http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Mauchly.html

The patent controversy: http://www.library.upenn.edu/special/gallery/mauchly/jwm7.html

ARPANet: http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/docs/arpa.html

Thanks to the following EDTECH listserv colleagues and friends who have reviewed the presentation and provided amendments and additional material for inclusion on the slides and in the notes.

Nancy Head, online instructor, Michigan Virtual High School (MVHS), U.S.A., on the web at www.mivhs.org

Mandi Axmann, Instructional Designer, Open Universities Australia

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