L

Lake, Clair D., 104
Languages, programming, 21115
Laning J. Halcombe, 214
LARC, 219
Larson, Earl, 22223
Last, Jay, 240
Learson, Thomas Vincent, 180, 250
Lehovec, Kurt, 242

integrated circuit patent of, 242

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von, 3035, 89

background of, 3031
calculator of, 3135

Leibniz wheel, 3234, 39, 7879
Lilly, William, 8
Lincoln Laboratory, and SAGE computer, 2056
Linear equations, 88

Atanasoff-Berry computer and, 117
digital electronic computer and, 113114

Livermore Atomic Research Computer. See LARC
Logarithms

invention of, 7
physical analog of, 10
tables of, 3940

Logic. See also Boolean algebra

ancestor of modern, 3031
paradox in, 144
undecidability in, 142145

Logic chip, 263. See also Microprocessor
Loom, automatic, 6263
Looping in programming, 64
Los Alamos, 13031, 136, 13940, 154
Lovelace, Countess of. See Byron, Augusta Ada