1. University of Utah 1 Whatever happened to...?

2. University of Utah 2 Blaise Pascal Born 1623 First theorem published (age 16) Pascaline (age 19) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Blaise_Pascal.jpeg

3. University of Utah 3 Blaise Pascal Pascaline was only “computer” he built Focused on mathematics and physics -probability theory -existence of vacuums

4. University of Utah 4 Blaise Pascal Converts to Christianity (age 32)‏ Writes religious essays -“Provincial Letters” -“Thoughts” unfinished at death Dies at age 39

5. University of Utah 5 Ada Lovelace http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ada_Lovelace.jpg Born 1815 Daughter of poet Lord Byron

6. University of Utah 6 Ada Lovelace Trained in mathematics at a young age Meets Charles Babbage (age 18) Wrote a “program” for Analytical Engine (age 27)

7. University of Utah 7 Ada Lovelace Dies of cancer (age 37)

8. University of Utah 8 Alan Turing born 1912 in London Interested in math/science in childhood Graduate from Cambridge, 1934 http://fusionanomaly.net/alanturing.html

9. University of Utah 9 Alan Turing Invents “Turing Machine” in 1936 (age 24) fundamental to study of computing! PhD from Princeton (1938)

10. University of Utah 10 10 Alan Turing

11. University of Utah 11 11 Alan Turing Codebreaking in World War II “Bombe” machine to crack Enigma cipher

12. University of Utah 12 12 Alan Turing “Turing Test” (1950)

13. University of Utah 13 13 Alan Turing Tragic ending Commits suicide (1954, age 41)

14. University of Utah 14 14 John Mauchly Born 1907 in Ohio Early interest in electronics http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/v42/n20/eniac.html

15. University of Utah 15 15 John Mauchly Personal life -Wife dies in a swimming accident (1946)‏ -Marries Kay McNulty (1948) one of the ENIAC programmers

16. University of Utah 16 16 John Mauchly Post-UNIVAC -Quits Sperry Rand (1960) -Starts “Mauchly Associates” software company -Starts “Dynatrend” (1966) consulting company

17. University of Utah 17 17 John Mauchly Back to UNIVAC! -Joins Sperry Rand as consultant (1973)

18. University of Utah 18 18 John Mauchly Back to UNIVAC! -Joins Sperry Rand as consultant (1973) Buys two TRS-80’s (1977) Dies in 1980 (age 72)

19. University of Utah 19 19 Presper Eckert Born 1919 to wealthy family in Philadelphia Built electronic sound systems Accepted at MIT, but went to U.Penn instead http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/SS01/hc/eniac/Eckert.jpg

20. University of Utah 20 20 Presper Eckert Graduates from U.Penn (1941) Teaches summer course in electronics -Meets John Mauchly

21. University of Utah 21 21 Presper Eckert Personal tragedy -Works so much on UNIVAC that he neglects his marriage -Wife commits suicide (1953)

22. University of Utah 22 22 Presper Eckert Unlike Mauchly, Eckert stays with the company -Eckert & Mauchly Computer Corporation -Remington Rand -Sperry Rand -Sperry UNIVAC -Unisys Finally retires in 1989

23. University of Utah 23 23 Presper Eckert Dies in 1995 of leukemia

24. University of Utah 24 24 John von Neumann Born 1903 in Hungary PhD in mathematics (age 22)‏ Emigrates to USA in 1930 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:JohnvonNeumann-LosAlamos.gif

25. University of Utah 25 25 John von Neumann Joins Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (1933) -Along with Einstein and Gödel Gains US citizenship (1937)

26. University of Utah 26 26 John von Neumann Married (1930) -One daughter, Marina Professor at U. of Michigan Divorced (1937) Married (1938)

27. University of Utah 27 27 John von Neumann Non-CS contributions: -set theory -game theory -numerical analysis -statistics

28. University of Utah 28 28 John von Neumann Joined ENIAC project by chance -Meets Herman Goldstine on a train “First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC” (1945)

29. University of Utah 29 29 John von Neumann Died of cancer in 1957 (age 53)‏

30. University of Utah 30 30 Herman Goldstine Born 1913 PhD in mathematics (1936)‏ Joins army (1941) http://www.ias.edu/midcom-serveattachmentguid-ab46b06b4384091b1188b3e84a246035/Herman- H.-Goldstine.jpg

31. University of Utah 31 31 Herman Goldstine Post-ENIAC -Joins von Neumann at Institute for Advanced Study -Joins IBM (1958) -Retires in 1973

32. University of Utah 32 32 Herman Goldstine Author / Historian -The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann (1972) -Numerical Analysis from the 16th to the 19th Century (1977) -A History of the Calculus of Variations from the Seventeenth Through the Nineteenth Century (1980)

33. University of Utah 33 33 Herman Goldstine Died 2004 (age 90)

34. University of Utah 34 34 Grace Hopper Born 1906 PhD in mathematics (1934) Taught at Vassar College (1931)‏ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:GraceHopper.jpg

35. University of Utah 35 35 Grace Hopper Married (1930) Divorced (1945) Never remarried

36. University of Utah 36 36 Grace Hopper Programmed Mark I computer (1944) Joined Eckert-Mauchly (1949) Helped design COBOL (1959)

37. University of Utah 37 37 Grace Hopper Joins Navy (1943) Retires from Navy (1966)‏ Returns to Navy (1967) Retires again (1971) Returns again (1972)

38. University of Utah 38 38 Grace Hopper Joins Navy (1943) Retires from Navy (1966) Returns to Navy (1967) Retires again (1971) Returns again (1972) Finally retires from Navy (1986)

39. University of Utah 39 39 Grace Hopper Later career -Consultant for DEC (1986-1990)

40. University of Utah 40 40 Grace Hopper Died in 1992 (age 85) Buried in Arlington National Cemetary

41. University of Utah 41 41 John Backus Born 1924 in Philadelphia Masters degree from Columbia University (1949) Joined IBM (1950) http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs1104/Compilers/Compilers.010.html

42. University of Utah 42 42 John Backus At IBM, wrote programs for an electromechanical calculator

43. University of Utah 43 43 John Backus Didn’t like programming! Developed FORTRAN (1954)‏ Also helped create ALGOL -Backus-Naur Form

44. University of Utah 44 44 John Backus Later career -Worked on FP, a functional programming language -(apology for FORTRAN?)

45. University of Utah 45 45 John Backus Died in 2007 (age 82)‏

46. University of Utah 46 46 John Kemeny Co-creator of BASIC (1964)‏ http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/50th/Kemeny.GIF

47. University of Utah 47 47 John Kemeny Co-creator of BASIC (1964) President of Dartmouth College (1970- 1981) -oversaw coeducation Founded “True Basic, Inc” (1983) Died in 1992 (age 66)

48. University of Utah 48 48 Gordon Moore Born 1929 PhD in Chemistry and Physics from Caltech (1954) http://www.trustedreviews.com/images/article/inline/5536-GordonMoore.jpg

49. University of Utah 49 49 Gordon Moore Co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor (1957) “Moore’s Law” (1965) Co-founder of Intel (1968) Retires from Intel (1997)

50. University of Utah 50 50 Gordon Moore Philanthropy -Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (2000)

51. University of Utah 51 51 Gordon Moore IEEE Medal of Honor (2008)‏

52. University of Utah 52 52 Ivan Sutherland Born 1938 in Nebraska Best known for Sketchpad (1963) -PhD thesis at MIT http://research.sun.com/vlsi/people/images/ivan_sutherland.jpg

53. University of Utah 53 53 Ivan Sutherland Professor at University of Utah (1968- 1974) -Established Utah as a center for computer graphics Founded Evans & Sutherland (1968)

54. University of Utah 54 54 Ivan Sutherland Professor at Caltech (1974-1978) Founded consulting firm Sutherland, Sproull and Associates (1980) Bought out by Sun Microsystems (1990)

55. University of Utah 55 55 Ed Roberts Born in 1942 Founder of MITS Inventor of Altair 8800 http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/TheCompMusRep/TCMR-V17-P17a.jpg

56. University of Utah 56 56 Ed Roberts MITS can’t keep up with demand for Altairs... Fights with Microsoft...

57. University of Utah 57 57 Ed Roberts Ed Roberts calls it quits (1977) -Sells MITS for $6 million Buys a farm in Georgia Goes to medical school at age 39 (1982)

58. University of Utah 58 58 Ed Roberts Currently works as a country doctor in Cochran, Georgia -population: 4,455 Still keeps an Altair in his office! http://media.arstechnica.com/articles/culture/total-share.media/roberts.jpg

59. University of Utah 59 59 Steve Wozniak Born 1950 Co-founder of Apple (1976) http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/the-woz-hosts-s.html

60. University of Utah 60 60 Steve Wozniak Personal life -Married (1976) -Divorced (1977) -Married (1981) -Divorced (1987) -Married (1990) -Divorced (2004)

61. University of Utah 61 61 Steve Wozniak Leaves Apple (1987)

62. University of Utah 62 62 Steve Wozniak Leaves Apple (1987) Post-Apple life -CL9 (1987) Universal remote controls

63. University of Utah 63 63 Steve Wozniak Leaves Apple (1987) Post-Apple life -CL9 (1987) Universal remote controls -Teaching 5 th Grade

64. University of Utah 64 64 Steve Wozniak Leaves Apple (1987) Post-Apple life -CL9 (1987) Universal remote controls -Teaching 5 th Grade -Wheels of Zeus (2001) GPS technology

65. University of Utah 65 65 Steve Wozniak Leaves Apple (1987) Post-Apple life -CL9 (1987) Universal remote controls -Teaching 5 th Grade -Wheels of Zeus (2001) GPS technology -Acquicor Technology (2006) A company that buys other companies

66. University of Utah 66 66 Therefore, what? Great inventors have lives, not just inventions

67. University of Utah 67 67 Therefore, what? Great inventors have lives, not just inventions -But sometimes their lives are not all that great.

68. University of Utah 68 68 Therefore, what? Great inventors have lives, not just inventions -But sometimes their lives are not all that great. Your destiny is up to you.

69. University of Utah 69 69 Reminder Final projects start next week!

70. University of Utah 70 70 “Test Question” On a scrap of paper, write a question that encapsulates one of the points from today's class, and turn it in. (Put your name on it!)