Technology History Project

By cristalhdez

  • the turing machine

    the turing machine
    Alan Turing presents the notion of a universal machine, later called the Turing machine, capable of computing anything that is computable. The central concept of the modern computer was based on his ideas.
    ( http://www.livescience.com/20718-computer-history.html )

  • Computers

    Computers
    English mathematician Charles Babbage conceives of a steam-driven calculating machine that would be able to compute tables of numbers. The project, funded by the English government, is a failure. More than a century later, however, the world’s first computer was actually built.
    ( http://www.livescience.com/20718-computer-history.html )

  • first computer to store memory

    first computer to store memory
    Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, design a computer that can solve 29 equations simultaneously. This marks the first time a computer is able to store information on its main memory.
    ( http://www.livescience.com/20718-computer-history.html )

  • Fortran

    Fortran
    the first of the major languages appeared in the form of FORTRAN. Its name stands for FORmula TRANslating system. The language was designed at IBM for scientific computing.

  • Agol language

    Agol language
    The Algol language was created by a committee for scientific use in 1958.It was also the first language with a formal grammar,

  • Pascal

    Pascal
    Pascal was begun in 1968 by Niklaus Wirth. Its development was mainly out of necessity for a good teaching tool. In the beginning, the language designers had no hopes for it to enjoy widespread adoption. Instead, they concentrated on developing good tools for teaching such as a debugger and editing system and support for common early microprocessor machines which were in use in teaching institutions.

  • Arpanet

    Arpanet
    The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was an early packet switching network and the first network to implement the protocol suite TCP/IP. Both technologies became the technical foundation of the Internet.

  • C programming language

    C programming language
    C was developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie while working at Bell Labs in New Jersey. The transition in usage from the first major languages to the major languages of today occurred with the transition between Pascal and C. Its direct ancestors are B and BCPL, but its similarities to Pascal are quite obvious.

  • Apple Computers

    Apple Computers
    Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started apple computers , and made the first computer with a single-circuit board .
    ( http://www.livescience.com/20718-computer-history.html )

  • First Spreadsheet

    First Spreadsheet
    Accountants rejoice at the introduction of VisiCalc, the first computerized spreadsheet program.
    ( http://www.livescience.com/20718-computer-history.html )

  • C ++

    C ++
    set of extensions developed into the full-featured language C++, which was released in 1983. C++ was designed to organize the raw power of C using OOP, but maintain the speed of C and be able to run on many different types of computers. C++ is most often used in simulations, such as games.