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Science. Ancient Greek Computer Gets Rebuilt Using Lego - PCWorld. Welcome, visitors from StumbleUpon! Like what you see here? Check out PCWorld's GeekTech blog for more hacks and DIY tech, or follow us on Facebook or Twitter. 2000 years ago the Greeks built a device designed to calculate the motion of celestial bodies, a computer now called the Antikythera mechanism. Lost for centuries at the bottom of the ocean, it was pulled up in 1901 and has baffled scientists until recently. This year, designer Andrew Carol built the first working copy of the computer out of Lego bricks, the New Scientist reports. The Antikythera mechanism is ridiculously complex for what is arguably the first computer ever built. The skill and understanding of the cosmos required to build something this complex never fails to astound me.
Our hats are collectively off to Andrew Carol for building it, and to Adam Rutherford, the journalist who put the project under his nose. [New Scientist] Like this? The 10 best geeky computer films | Culture | The Observer. Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence. The Elements of Computing Systems / Nisan & Schocken / www.idc.ac.il/tecs.