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Stem Calculator
Charles Babbage conceived the idea of a better machine that could perform not just one mathematical task but any kind of calculation. -
Hollerith Punchbar
Herman Hollerith's invention consisted of electrically-operated components that captured and processed data by "reading" holes on paper punch cards. -
HP
HP was founded by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in the late 1930's. Their first product was an audio oscillator and one of their first customers Walt Disney. Disney used the oscillator to test audio equipment in the 12 specially equipped theaters showing Fantasia in 1940. HP entered the computer market with the HP 2116A in 1966. -
Turing Test
Often considered the father of modern computer science, Alan Turing was famous for his work developing the first modern computers, decoding the encryption of German Enigma machines during the second world war, and detailing a procedure known as the Turing Test, forming the basis for artificial intelligence. The Turing Test is a method of inquiry in artificial intelligence (AI) for determining whether or not a computer is capable of thinking like a human being -
COBOL
In the late 1950's Grace Hopper participated in the CODASYL consortium, helping to create a machine-independent programming language called COBOL language. COBOL stands for Common Business Oriented Language. It is imperative, procedural, and object-oriented. A compiler is a computer program that takes other computer programs written in a high-level (source) language and converts them into another program, machine code, which the computer can understand. -
Engelbart GUI
Douglas Engelbart was an American inventor whose work beginning in the 1950s led to his patent for the computer mouse. Engelbart won the 1997 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honor in computer science, for his “inspiring. Englebart's work led to the development of the basic graphical user interface (GUI)—a program that allows the user to communicate with a computer through graphics and pointing devices such as a mouse, rather than through a difficult text-only interface. -
Apple
Apple Computer, Inc. was founded in the 1970's by college dropouts Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.The company's first product is the Apple I, a computer designed and hand-built entirely by Wozniak. To finance its creation, Jobs sold his Volkswagen Bus, and Wozniak sold his HP-65 calculator. -
Windows
The first version of Windows, released in 1985, was simply a GUI offered as an extension of Microsoft's existing disk operating system, or MS-DOS. Windows is a graphical operating system developed by Microsoft. It allows users to view and store files, run the software, play games, watch videos, and provides a way to connect to the internet. It was released for both home computing and professional works. -
World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web while at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, in 1989. He wrote the first web client and server in 1990. His specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined as Web technology expanded. The WWW was originally created and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world. -
WiFi
Vic Hayes has been called the "father of Wi-Fi" because he chaired the IEEE committee that created the 802.11 standards in 1997. Before the public even heard of Wi-Fi, Hayes established the standards that would make Wi-Fi feasible. Wi-Fi is a wireless networking technology that uses radio waves to provide wireless high-speed Internet access. A common misconception is that the term Wi-Fi is short for "wireless fidelity," however Wi-Fi is a trademarked phrase -
iPhone
Apple's first iPhone was announced by Steve Jobs in 2007, and it was released in June of 2007. Priced at $499 for the 4GB model and $599 for the 8GB model, it was a revolutionary device. The original iPhone featured a 3.5-inch display, a 2-megapixel camera, and a multi-touch interface. -
Chromebook
The first Chromebooks for sale, by Acer Inc. and Samsung, were announced at the Google I/O conference. They run ChromeOS, an operating system that has cloud storage, Google built in, along with several layers of security. -
Apple Watch
The Apple Watch was released in 2015 and quickly became the world's best-selling wearable device: 4.2 million were sold in the second quarter of fiscal 2015, and more than 115 million people were estimated to use an Apple Watch as of December 2022. This watch is a wearable smartwatch that allows users to accomplish a variety of tasks, including making phone calls, sending text messages and reading email.