1. History of Computers

2. Early Ideas Abacus Logs by John Napier Wilhelm Shickard
William Oughtred
Pascaline
Leibniz Calculator
Jacquard Loom
Blaise Pascal ( )
Joseph-Marie Jacquard
( )
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
(1646 – 1716)

3. Early Computers Difference Engine Analytical Engine Charles Babbage
( )

4. Ada Augusta Lovelace
ADA – Programming Language

5. John Vincent Atanasoff
Early Computers
Hollerith’s Punch Card Machine
ABC – Atanasoff-Berry Computer
Special Purpose Electronic Digital Computer
John Vincent Atanasoff
Herman Hollerith
( )

6. GENERATIONS of Computers
First Generation ( )
Technology: Vacuum Tubes
ENIAC - Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
EDVAC - Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer
UNIVAC - Universal Automatic computer

7. GENERATIONS of Computers
Second Generation ( )
Technology: Transistor
Invented by William Shockley, John Bardeen, and William Brattain

8. GENERATIONS of Computers
3. Third Generation ( )
Technology: Integrated Circuits
Robert Noyce
( )
Jack Kilby

9. GENERATIONS of Computers
4. Fourth Generation (1971-present)
The Microprocessor
The Microcomputer
The Personal Computer
The Apple II

10. GENERATIONS of Computers
5. Fifth Generation (present-beyond)
Artificial Intelligence
games playing
expert systems
natural language
robotics