Re: Politicians seem to have always had an instinctive grasp of science and technology
--- a bad briefing by a non-sympathizer ---
Begins to scratch the surface of the antipathy that Airy expressed about mechanical computing. I therefore found it amusing that the first "production" program run on EDSAC was a computation of the Airy Integral. I'd like to think that Maurice Wilkes had a sense of humor that contributed to that choice.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
