'''Antikythera-mekanismen''' er en [[analog computer]] fra [[Oldtidens Grækenland]], der er blevet beskrevet som det første eksempel på en sådan anordning,<ref name="ManarisBrown2014">{{cite book|author1=Bill Manaris|author2=Andrew R. Brown|title=Making Music with Computers: Creative Programming in Python|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lnXOBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA4|date=19. maj 2014|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-1-4822-2221-0|page=4|quote=The Antikythera Mechanism-The First Known Computer}}</ref><ref name="Steiglitz2019">{{cite book|author=Ken Steiglitz|title=The Discrete Charm of the Machine: Why the World Became Digital|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hjthDwAAQBAJ|date=5. februar 2019|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-0-691-18417-3|page=108|quote=The Antkythera Mechanism [The first computer worthy of the name...]}}</ref><ref name="Jones2017">{{cite book|author=Alexander Jones|title=A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4IauDQAAQBAJ|year=2017|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-973934-9|page=25|quote=[In the first detailed description of the device in 1903, Perklis Rediadis's] lasting contribution was not to be the identification of the Mechanism as a mechanical counterpart of the astrolabe, which turned out to be wrong, but the general idea that the gears functioned as a device for calculating quantitative data by means of moving parts—that is, an analog computer.}}</ref><ref name=swedinFerro2007>{{cite book| first1=Eric G.| last1=Swedin |author-link1=Eric G. Swedin | first2=David L.| last2=Ferro| title=Computers: The Life Story of a Technology| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IJXYoPiwvOMC&pg=PA1| access-date=28. maj 2013| date=24. oktober 2007| publisher=JHU Press| isbn=978-0-8018-8774-1| page=1| quote=It was a mechanical computer for calculating lunar, solar, and stellar calendars.}}</ref><ref name="Reilly2003">{{cite book|author=Edwin D. Reilly|title=Milestones in Computer Science and Information Technology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JTYPKxug49IC&pg=PA11|year=2003|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-1-57356-521-9|page=11}}</ref><ref name="Angelakis2006">{{cite book|author=Dimitris G. Angelakis|title=Quantum Information Processing: From Theory to Experiment|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fTXYxukuUdwC&pg=PR5|year=2006|publisher=IOS Press|isbn=978-1-58603-611-9|page=5}}</ref><ref name="BrunnerSoriano2019">{{cite book|author1=Daniel Brunner|author2=Miguel C. Soriano|author3=Guy Van der Sande|title=Photonic Reservoir Computing: Optical Recurrent Neural Networks|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kzzEDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1|date=8. juli 2019|publisher=De Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-058349-6|page=1}}</ref><ref name=amrp-07-1>{{cite web| url=http://www.antikythera-mechanism.gr/project/overview| title=Project overview| publisher=The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project| access-date=1. juli 2007| quote="The Antikythera Mechanism is now understood to be dedicated to astronomical phenomena and operates as a complex mechanical 'computer' which tracks the cycles of the Solar System."| archive-date=21. februar 2011| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110221204426/http://www.antikythera-mechanism.gr/project/overview| url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=seaman-11>{{cite book| last1=Seaman| first1=Bill| first2=Otto E.| last2=Rössler| title=Neosentience: The Benevolence Engine| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wfOBzvKCc5IC&pg=PT111| access-date=28. maj 2013| date=1. januar 2011| publisher=Intellect Books| isbn=978-1-84150-404-9| page=111| quote=Mike G. Edmunds and colleagues used imaging and high-resolution X-ray tomography to study fragments of the Antikythera Mechanism, a bronze mechanical analog computer thought to calculate astronomical positions}}</ref><ref name=swedinFerro2007/><ref name=paphitis-06>{{cite news| first=Nicholas| last=Paphitis| title=Experts: Fragments an Ancient Computer| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/30/AR2006113001303.html| newspaper=Washington Post| date=30. november 2006| quote=Imagine tossing a top-notch laptop into the sea, leaving scientists from a foreign culture to scratch their heads over its corroded remains centuries later. A Roman shipmaster inadvertently did something just like it 2,000 years ago off southern Greece, experts said late Thursday.}}</ref> som er blevet brugt til at forudse [[astronomi]]ske positioner, [[formørkelse]]r til brug i [[kalender]] og [[Hellenistisk astrologi|astrologiske]] formål flere årtier ud i fremtiden.<ref name=freeth-06>{{cite journal| last1=Freeth| first1=Tony| date=30. november 2006| last2=Bitsakis| first2=Yanis| last3=Moussas| first3=Xenophon| last4=Seiradakis| first4=John. H.| last5=Tselikas| first5=A.| last6=Mangou| first6=H.| last7=Zafeiropoulou| first7=M.| last8=Hadland| first8=R.| last9=Bate| first9=D.| last10=Ramsey| first10=A.| last11=Allen| first11=M.| last12=Crawley| first12=A.| last13=Hockley| first13=P.| last14=Malzbender| first14=T.| last15=Gelb| first15=D.| last16=Ambrisco| first16=W.| last17=Edmunds| first17=M. G.| journal=Nature| volume=444 | title=Decoding the ancient Greek astronomical calculator known as the Antikythera Mechanism| bibcode=2006Natur.444..587F| display-authors=8| pages=587–91| doi=10.1038/nature05357| issue=7119| pmid=17136087| url=http://www.antikythera-mechanism.gr/system/files/0608_Nature.pdf| access-date=20. maj 2014}}</ref><ref name=freeth-12>{{cite journal| last1=Freeth| first1=Tony| date=2012| last2=Jones| first2=Alexander| title=The Cosmos in the Antikythera Mechanism| url=http://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/isaw-papers/4/| access-date=19. maj 2014| publisher=Institute for the Study of the Ancient World}}</ref><ref name=pinotsis>{{cite journal| last=Pinotsis| first=A. D.| date=30. august 2007| journal=Astronomical and Astrophysical Transactions| volume=26| issue=4–5| title= The Antikythera mechanism: who was its creator and what was its use and purpose?| doi=10.1080/10556790601136925|bibcode = 2007A&AT...26..211P| pages=211–226| url=https://semanticscholar.org/paper/22d4128dd93bc0f6d428648ee5deb450e2272e90}}</ref> Den kunne også bruges til at følge den fire-årige cyklus for atletiske sportsgrene meget lig en [[olympiade]], cyklussen for [[Antikkens olympiske lege]].<ref name=freeth-08>{{cite journal| last1=Freeth| first1=Tony| date=31. juli 2008| last2=Jones| first2=Alexander| last3=Steele| first3=John M.| last4=Bitsakis| first4=Yanis| journal=Nature| volume=454| title=Calendars with Olympiad display and eclipse prediction on the Antikythera Mechanism| bibcode=2008Natur.454..614F| pages=614–7| doi=10.1038/nature07130| issue=7204| pmid=18668103| url=http://www.antikythera-mechanism.gr/system/files/Antikythera_Nature2008_submitted.pdf| access-date=20. maj 2014}}</ref><ref>Kaplan, Sarah (14 June 2016). [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/06/14/the-worlds-oldest-computer-is-still-revealing-its-secrets/ "The World's Oldest Computer Is Still Revealing Its Secrets"], ''The Washington Post''. Retrieved 16 June 2016.</ref><ref name="Paul Iversen 2017">Paul Iversen, "The Calendar on the Antikythera Mechanism and the Corinthian Family of Calendars, Hesperia 86 (2017): 130 and note 4.</ref>
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