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History of Science & Technology Q&A (March 23, 2022)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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The History of Computers in World War II

The dominant form of computation in World War II was non-digital electronic computer type methods. In those days, the computers were mostly women, and that actually continued when the first programmers were originally programming electronic computers. It's always confusing because I grew up in England, whether the dates of World War II in 1939 to 1945 in the US are obviously different.

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