History of Computing - People Flashcards
Charles Babbage
- “Father of Computing”
- Contributed to the basic design of the computer through his analytical machine
Konrad Zuse
- Invented the electromechanical binary computer, Z1, which was the first freely programmable computer
- Invented the programming language “Plankalkul”
John Louis von Neumann
- Created ‘von Neumann Architecture’, the basic infrastructure design of machines
- Application of computers to applied mathematics
- Stored program concept
Alan Turing
- Helped pioneer the concept of the digital computer
- Artificial Intelligence
- The Turing Test
- The Turing Machine
- Worked with COLLOSUS to decipher codes in WWII
Seymour Cray
- Pioneer in building the supercomputer
Grace Hopper
- The Harvard Mark 1 Computer
- A-0 programming language, renamed MATH-MATIC
Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce
The integrated circuit
John Backus & IBM
FORTRAN - first high level language
Steve Russell & MIT
- Invented the first computer game
- Spacewar computer game
Douglas Engelbart
- Computer Mouse
- Windows
Alan Shugart & IBM
The floppy disc
Dan Bricklin & Bob Frankston
VisiCalc Spreadsheet Software
Seymour Rubenstein & Rob Barnaby
WordStar Software
John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry
ABC Computer
John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly
ENIAC 1 Computer
UNIVAC - first commercial computer
John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, & William Shockley
The Transistor
Metcalfe & Xerox
Ethernet Computer Networking
Faggin, Hoff, & Mazor
Microprocessor
Aiken & Hopper
Mark 1 Computer
Williams & Kilburn
Manchester Baby Computer
