Summary Time Lines Broken down by themes
Hardware Ancient times – Astronomical clocks 1652 Pascaline 1837 Babbage Analytical Engine 1946 ENIAC 1944 Mark I Vacuum Tubes 1959 IBM 7090 Transistor 1959 PDP-1 Minicomputer 1978 Altair Apple II 1981 IBM PC 2007 IPhone 2015 Apple Watch
Algorithms & Software 300 BC Euclid’s Elements 1801 Jacquard Loom 1837 Babbage / Lovelace 1936 Turing Machine 1945 Von Neumann architecture 1957 Fortran 1959 COBOL 1972 C / Unix 1990 Windows 3
Artificial Intelligence 1950 Turing Test 1960 J. C. R. Licklider: Man-Computer Symbiosis 1956 John McCarthy 1 st A. I. Conference 1970 MIT AI Lab Marvin Minsky, Seymour Papert 1997 IBM’s Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov at chess : A Space Odyssey
Networking 1948 Claude Shannon - A Mathematical Theory of Communication 1963 J. C. R. Licklider “Intergalactic Computer Network” 1969 ARPANET 1989 Tim Berners-Lee World Wide Web 1993 Mosaic – First modern browser 1995 Alta Vista search engine 1983 Richard Stallman founds free software movement 2004 Mark Zuckerberg founds Facebook 2001 Jimmy Wales - Wikipedia