history of computers pt 2
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Updated: 20 Oct 2017
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BabbagePeriods
Charles Babbage
born december 26, 1791
died october 18, 1871
lived in london, united kingdomHerman Hollerith- Born February 29, 1860 Buffalo, NY and died November 7, 1929 Washington, D.C
Tabulator- helped summarize information, the tabulator can help tally up a list of numbers or lumber made in 1890Vannevar Bush
Born March 11, 1890
Everett Massachusetts
Vannevar was an american electrical engineer who developed the differential analyzer during WWII
Died June 28, 1974 in Belmont MassachusettsRockefeller Differential analyzer
a one-hundred-ton machine with 2000 vacuum tubes and 150 motors, and weighed 100 tons
It was an analog computer. An analog computer carries out an analogy of a real physical process
It was invented 1942Alan Turing
Born: June 23, 1912,
Died: June 7, 1954
Lived: Maida Vale
He was a was a mathematician, cryptographer, and a pioneer of computer science.Konrad Zuse
a German civil engineer, inventor and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3 became operational in May 1941,john atanasoff and clifford berry
Created the Atanasoff-Berry computer in 1943.
Clifford Berry born in 1918 in Iowa and stayed there and died in 1963.
John Atanasoff was born in 1903 in NY. Died in 1995Howard Aiken
Born in march 8 1900
Died march 14 1973
Lived in hobobken NJ
the original conceptual designer behind IBM's HarvardClaude Elwood Shannon was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory".
Mathematical Theory of Communication, that he published in 1948.
Born: April 30, 1916
Died: February 21, 2001John Bardeen - 1908-1991
Walter Brattain - 1902-1987
William Shockley - 1910-1989
-Given credit for most notable invention: The Transistor
-Known as “the most important invention of the of the 20th CenturyFederico Faggin- December 1, 1941 (age 75)
Federico Faggin, is an Italian physicist, inventor and entrepreneur, widely known for designing the first commercial microprocessor. He led the 4004 project and the design group during the first five years of Intel's microprocessor effort. The way he change things was by making theses new inventions for physicist to have easer jobs or more helpful stuff.ed roberts
Born: September 13, 1941
died: April 1, 2010
was an American engineer, entrepreneur and medical doctor who invented the first commercially successful personal computer in 1975Apple 1
desktop computer released by the Apple Computer Company in 1976.
It was designed & hand-built by Steve Wozniak
desktop computer released by the Apple Computer Company in 1976. It was designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniakbill gates
He was born on October 28, 1955 and is still alive. He was born in Seattle, Washington.
His biggest contribution was the operating systems for PC’s. He further developed that into a windows based operating system.alan kay
Born May 17,1940 in Springfield Massachusetts
Went to university of Utah
Elected for a fellow of the MaericanSteve Jobs
contributed to the Apple Industry, he had co-founded apple.With the work of Jobs and Steve Wozniak they had released many new advanced technology products, such as computers, phones and ipads.
Born: February 24, 1955
Died: October 5, 2011
Born and Lived: San Francisco, CA- Palo Alto, CAbob metcalfe
is a Engineer, Technology executive & venture capitalist
He was born April 7, 1964,
Went to: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology,
Harvard University,
MIT Sloan School ManagementTim Berners-Lee
Born June 8, 1955
He is currently still alive at the age of 63 years old
He lived in Massachusetts and London
He invented the World Wide Web
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