1. Technology History - Goal: To make human tasks easier
Selected highlights
Abacus (Chinese, ~200 B.C.)
Adding machine (Pascal, 1642)
Knitting Machine (Jacquard, 1800)
Difference engine (Babbage, 1822)
Analytical engine (Babbage, 1834)
Boolean Algebra (Boolean, 1848)
Tabulating machine (Hollerith, 1886)
Theoretical Turing Machine (Turing, 1936)
von Neumann Architecture (von Neumann, 1945)
ENIAC (Mauchly & Eckert, 1946)
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2. Computing Generations
1st – 1940’s-56, UNIVAC, machine language, Vacuum tubes
2nd – , Transistors, Fortran, batch processing
3rd – , Integrated Circuits, Minis, terminals, IBM 360
4th – 1971-mid 80’s, PC’s, Microprocessors, Large scale integration
5th - mid 80’s – present, Super computers, AI, VLSI, Internet, parallel processing, natural language processing, etc.
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