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1 Wayne Summers TSYS School of Computer Science Columbus State University September 10, 2009

2 Pre-twentieth century computing Twentieth century computing Modern Computing Future of Computing?

3 14 November 2007 Columbus State University What was the average weight of a computer in the early 1940’s?

4 “My God, Herschel! How I wish these calculations could be executed by steam.”[1821] Charles Babbage designed the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine (neither were completed by him) In 1824, Babbage won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society "for his invention of an engine for calculating mathematical and astronomical tables".Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society

5 “We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.” Ada Augusta, Countess Of Lovelace (October 1842)

6 Atanasoff–Berry Computer (1937-1941) Zuse’s Z3 (1941) Colossus (1943-1944) Eniac (1943-1946) IBM Harvard Mark I (1944) Manchester Baby (1948) / Mark I

7 Sperry-Univac IBM 360 “I think there is a world market for about five computers.” [Thomas J. Watson]

8 9/19/2015 8 What Computing Was in 70-80s

9 PCs: Altair, Apple, IBM PC DOS, Windows, Linux

10 9/19/2015 10 What Computing is Today Wearable Computing Bioinformatics Virtual Environments Graphics

11 9/19/2015 11 What Computing is Today Ubiquitous Computing High Performance Simulation Information Security Databases

12 Second generation of web development and web design. It is characterised as facilitating communication, information sharing, interoperability, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. It has led to the development and evolution of web-based communities, hosted services, and web applications. Examples include social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs and folksonomies.folksonomies (http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/ne ws/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html)http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/ne ws/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

13 Social Networks: Facebook / MySpace / Tagged / MyYearbook / LiveJournal / LinkIn / SlashKey / Gaia Online Blogs (http://www.blogger.com/)http://www.blogger.com/ Twitter - free social messaging utility for staying connected in real-time(http://twitter.com/)http://twitter.com YouTube – free video (http://www.youtube.com/)http://www.youtube.com/ Wikis - free encyclopedia that anyone can edit

14 Second Life – 3d virtual world environment (http://secondlife.com/)http://secondlife.com/ Screencast – place to upload and share videos, images, docs, etc. (http://screencast.com/ )http://screencast.com/ Google Site – web server (http://sites.google.com/ )http://sites.google.com/ Flickr - place to upload and share images (http://www.flickr.com/ )http://www.flickr.com/ BitTorrent – peer-to-peer sharing of rich content (http://www.bittorrent.com/ )http://www.bittorrent.com/ Ebay – community shopping (http://www.ebay.com/ )http://www.ebay.com/

15 Google Docs – documents, spreadsheets, presentations, forms (http://docs.google.com/ )http://docs.google.com/ Shazaam – music identifier (http://www.shazam.com/music/web/home.html )http://www.shazam.com/music/web/home.html ShopSavvy – barcode reader / shopper Doodle – scheduling app (http://doodle.com/)http://doodle.com/ Pandora – music machine (http://www.pandora.com/)http://www.pandora.com/ Google maps / Google Earth (http://maps.google.com/, http://earth.google.com/ )http://maps.google.com/http://earth.google.com/

16 Smartphones iPhone Google G1 Blackberry Electronic Books Kindle, Sony Reader Notebook/Tablet Computers

17 Microsoft Surface: http://www.microsoft.com/surface/Default.aspx?page =videos#gid=demos&vid=d2 http://www.microsoft.com/surface/Default.aspx?page =videos#gid=demos&vid=d2 MIT Media Lab's "Sixth Sense“: http://video.computerworld.com/services/player/bcpi d1351827287?bctid=14706015001 http://video.computerworld.com/services/player/bcpi d1351827287?bctid=14706015001

18 Project Gutenberg – over 100,000 titles available online (30,000 free books) - http://www.gutenberg.org http://www.gutenberg.org Google Books Library Project (An enhanced card catalog of the world's books) [5-6 million books] - http://books.google.com/googlebooks/library.html http://books.google.com/googlebooks/library.html In-copyright and in-print books In-copyright but out-of-print books Out-of-copyright books


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