1. A history in the life of…
Charles Babbage
As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science.
—Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

2. Life Born Married Georgiana Whitmore on July 25th, 1814
December 26th, 1791
Wealthy family in London
Married Georgiana Whitmore on July 25th, 1814
Had eight children but only three survived to adulthood
Died
October 18th, 1871
London, England

3. Education Engineering curiosity at a young age
He learned algebra on his own
Babbage would go to school in secret from three until five in the morning to study calculus by himself
Babbage went to Trinity College in Cambridge in 1810
Formed Analytical Society at Cambridge with George Peacock and John Herschel to discuss and translate calculus

4. Accolades
At the age of twenty-five he became a member of the Royal Society
Awarded the title of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge
Lucasian Professor of Mathematics title given to Sir Isaac Newton and is currently held by Stephen Hawking

5. Interesting Facts
Babbage is an ancient lunar crater named for Charles Babbage
Held Saturday evening soirées with Europe’s finest liberal intelligence
Held a unique fascination with the supernatural world

6. Difference Engine
Mechanical calculator used to tabulate polynomial functions
The Difference Engine can only add, so Newton’s Method of Divided Differences was used

7. Analytical Engine Extended on difference engine
Programmable via punch cards
Operated on code similar to assembly
Turing complete machine

8. Ada Lovelace Wrote a description of Babbage’s analytical engine
Wrote programs for the analytical engine
Extended Babbage’s work beyond simple mathematical computations

9. Modern Difference Engine
Babbage’s second revision of the Difference engine was finally created in 1991
Created at the Science Museum in London after 17 years of work

10. Impact on Computer Science
Difference engine showed mechanical processes could be used to solve mathematical equations
Analytical engine was the first programmable computer
Analytical engine had memory, a processing unit, and a “printer”

11. Questions?

12. Works Cited http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbage