| BABBAGE | Charles ____, English mathematician whose uncompleted Analytical Engine anticipated the electronic computer |
| BOOLE | English mathematician whose ideas led to the study of symbolic logic (5) |
| TURING | Alan ___ (1912-1954), English mathematician whose eponymous machine was a hypothetical forerunner of the modern computer (6) |
| GEORGEBOOLE | Largely self-taught English mathematician whose "Laws of Thought" was a pioneering work in modern symbolic logic |
| CHARLES | Given name of the polymath considered the father of the computer who invented the difference engine and worked with Ada Lovelace on the later analytical engine (7) |
| LOVELACE | Married name of the 19th-century mathematician and computer pioneer Augusta Ada Byron who, in her writings about Charles Babbage's analytical engine, pondered the notion of AI-generated music (8) |
| READE | Charles ___, English author best known for the historical romance The Cloister and the Hearth (1861) (5) |
| EULER | Mathematician whose work pioneered concepts represented by the symbol at the center of this puzzle |
| GAUSS | Mathematician whose work pioneered concepts represented by the symbol at the center of this puzzle |
| ADA | A forename of Lord Byron's daughter Countess of Lovelace, who said that the analytical engine "weaves algebraic patterns, just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves" (3) |
| BAUM | Author who anticipated the concept of augmented reality in his 1901 story The Master Key and also penned the Oz series of books (4) |
| DARWIN | Charles _, English naturalist known for the theory of biological evolution (6) |
| CRICHTON | Charles ___, English filmmaker who directed such Ealing comedies as The Lavender Hill Mob (8) |
| ONLINE | March/April 1996: T.O. ___ (Original name of the Star's website, which featured the electronic version of the newspaper). Later that year, it would be renamed to what it still is today ...More at #271 |
| CAVALIERI | Bonaventura ___, Italian mathematician whose principle in geometry partially anticipated integral calculus (9) |
| EUCLID | 3rd-century Greek mathematician whose Elements established the principles of plane geometry (6) |
| NOTEPAPER | What can you write on? Anything but the electronic version of The Times! |
| SLIDERULE | Calculation tool used prior to the invention of the electronic calculator (5,4) |
| ERNIE | Name of the electronic machine selecting the winning numbers of premium bonds (5) |
| LEHRER | Tom, U.S. musician and mathematician whose satirical songs include The Elements (6) |
