computer history
MARCELA ELVIR
INTRODUCTION
There once was a time, when there were no
computers. In that time it was hard for people to
communicate or to do math work. Until some
brilliant people started inventing technology.
Facilitating lots of thing for humans. One of them
being the invention of computers, making it easier
for people to communicate. At first computers
started as some type of technology monster. Being
expensive , giant (not portable), difficult to use and
not that accurate. Technology then started to
transcend, making computers accurate,
portable,cheaper, and understandable ( or easy to
use ). That advancement took some decades,but it
was worth it because it makes things easier know in
days.
PRE-COMPUTER
1930 The differential analyzer ( invented by
Vannevar Bush) is introduced as the first serious
attempt to design a computer that can do many kinds
of scientific computations. It is the herald of the
modern computer age.
1934 The idea that an automatic calculator would
only need a control program, a memory, and an
arithmetic unit is advanced by Konrad Zuse, a
famous German civil engineer.
1936Alan Turing publishes "On Computable
Numbers" in which he outlines what is basically the
modern computer.
1938 William Hewlett and David Packard founded
Hewlett-Packard and produced their first product, a
resistance-capacitance audio oscillator that was
purchased by Disney to make the sound track for the
film "Fantasia." The company would later become
famous for its profitable line of desktop printers.
1939 John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry have
a prototype of the binary-based ABC (Atanasoff-Berry
Computer). This machine is often considered the first
automatic digital computer.
The first generation started
from 1942-1955
[Link] beginning of commercial computer
age
2. It was developed by two scientists
Mauchly and Echert at the Census
Department of United States in 1947. The
first generation computers were used
during 1942-1955.
[Link] on vacuum tubes
[Link] computers were large in size
[Link] a lot of energy
First
Generation
SECOND
GENERATION
The Second Generation started
from 1955-1964
[Link] transistors
[Link] Barden, William Brattain and William Shockley
developed transistor in 1947
[Link] system was required
[Link] less energy and were not heated.
[Link] used for specific purposes
[Link] computers were still hard to use and as mentioned
above they were only used for specific reasons, they
were also big and not portable
THIRD GENERATION
THIRD
GENERATION
STARTED IN
1964-1275
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Third
generation
computers
used
the
integrated circuits (IC). Jack Kilby developed the concept of
integrated circuit in 1958.
[Link] first IC was invented and used in 1961. The size of an
IC is about square inch. A single IC chip may contain
thousands of transistors
3. For the Transitors and the IC the computer became
smaller
[Link] sophisticated technology required for the
manufacturing of IC chips.
[Link] cost was low because hardware failure is
reare.
FOURTH GENERATION
The Fourth Generation was in the 1975
1. More powerful and reliable than previous generations.
[Link] in size
[Link] processing power with less power consumpti
[Link] types of High level languages can be used in this type of computers
[Link] with the invention of Microprocessor. The Microprocessor contains thousands of ICs. Ted Hoff
produced the first microprocessor in 1971
Fifth
Generation
Fifth Generation (Present and
beyond )
[Link] generation computing devices, based on artificial intelligence, are still in development,
though there are some applications, such as voice recognition, that are being used today.
[Link] Parallel procecing
3. The use of Parallel proceincing is making possible the artificial intelligence
[Link] goal of fifth-generation computing is to develop devices that respond to natural language
input and are capable of learning and self-organization.
[Link] will then be robots because of their artificial intelligence
Sergey Brin
Is an American computer scientist and internet
entrepreneur who, together with Larry Page,
co-founded Google, one of the world's most
profitable Internet companies. According to
Hurun Global Rich List 2015 he is jointly one
of three people listed as 18th richest in the
world (21 overall) with a net worth of US$30
billion
Currently, he is responsible for the
management of special projects. From 2001 to
2011, Sergey was CTO, where he shared
responsibility for the daily operations of the
company.
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