CS 157B: Database Management Systems II March 18 Class Meeting Department of Computer Science San Jose State University Spring 2013 Instructor: Ron Mak
Department of Computer Science Spring 2013: March 18 CS 157B: Database Management Systems II © R. Mak 2 Today’s Presentations Section 1 Team INVIKO Team Lasers Team Cosmos Team VoidStarStar Team A Section 2 Team C Team Unlimited Data Team VoidStar Team Khalsa
Department of Computer Science Spring 2013: March 18 CS 157B: Database Management Systems II © R. Mak 3 Unofficial Field Trip Computer History Museum in Mt. View Experience a fully restored IBM 1401 mainframe computer from the early 1960s in operation. General info: My summer seminar: Restoration: thelen.org/1401Project/1401RestorationPage.htmlhttp://ed- thelen.org/1401Project/1401RestorationPage.html Demos at 11:30 and at 2:00. See a life-size working model of Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine in operation, a hand-cranked mechanical computer designed in the early 1800s. Demo at 1:00. Saturday, March 23. Meet in the museum lobby at 11:15 AM.
Department of Computer Science Spring 2013: March 18 CS 157B: Database Management Systems II © R. Mak 4 Unofficial Field Trip IBM 1401 computer, fully restored and operational A small transistor-based mainframe computer. Extremely popular with small businesses in the late 1950s through the mid 1960s Maximum of 16K bytes of memory. 800 card/minute card reader (wire brushes). 600 line/minute line printer (impact). 6 magnetic tape drives, no disk drives. Special private hands-on demos at 11:45 and 2:00.
Department of Computer Science Spring 2013: March 18 CS 157B: Database Management Systems II © R. Mak 5 Unofficial Field Trip Babbage Difference Engine, fully operational Hand-cranked mechanical computer. Computed polynomial functions. Designed by Charles Babbage in the early to mid 1800s. Arguably the world’s first computer scientist, lived He wasn’t able to build it because he lost his funding. His plans survived and this working model was built. Includes a working printer! Demo at 1:00
Department of Computer Science Spring 2013: March 18 CS 157B: Database Management Systems II © R. Mak 6 Unofficial Field Trip The new Revolution exhibit is now open! Walk through a timeline of the First 2000 Years of Computing History. Historic computer systems, data processing equipment, and other artifacts. Small theatre presentations. Atanasoff-Berry Computer Hollerith Census Machine
Department of Computer Science Spring 2013: March 18 CS 157B: Database Management Systems II © R. Mak 7 Extra Credit! There will be extra credit if you participate in the unofficial field trip to the Computer History Museum. Up to 10 points added to your midterm score. To be decided: a quiz (via Desire2Learn) or an essay