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George Robert Stibitz (April 20, 1904 – January 31, 1995) is internationally recognized as a father of the modern digital computer. He was a Bell Labs researcher known for his 1930s and 1940s work on the realization of Boolean logic digital circuits using electromechanical relays as the switching element.

Born in York, Pennsylvania, he received his bachelor’s degree from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, his master’s degree from Union College in 1927, and his Ph.D. in mathematical physics in 1930 from Cornell University.

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Analogy : an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others, drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect; “the operation of a computer presents and interesting analogy to the working of the brain”; “the models show by analogy how matter is built up”

An analogy is a comparison between two different things, in order to highlight some form of similarity. A process of reasoning whereby two entities that share some similarities are assumed to share many others.

It becomes really funny when students are involved. Here are a few worst analogies ever written in a high school essay : (more…)