Computer History Timeline!
Pascals adding Machine
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between 1642 and 1644
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Blaise Pascal designed a machine to add /subtract two numbers directly and to perform multiplication/ division through repeated addition/subtraction.
It created a basis for modern technology and more modern calculadors.
Blaise Pascal was involved in the creation of the adding machine.
Tabulator Machine - Herman Hollerith
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September 23, 1884
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It designed to assist in summarizing information stored on punched cards/ developed to help process data for the 1890 U.S. Census.
It helped to manage data such as patient records and mortality statistics.
Holleriths company became involved with other companys including the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company
(CTR) which later was named International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) and ofcourse he created and designed
the tabulator machine.
Alan Turing - Turing Machine
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1936
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Turing made a device that could check
if your mathematical assertion is able to be proven. Turing also made the machine to crack the enigma code during world war 2.
It taught to follow a complex set of mathematical operations,
Alan was involved in the creation and design of the turing machine and trying to solve the enigma code.
Tim Berners-Lee - Html
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June 8, 1955
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English engineer /computer scientist.Best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.
It was a Foundation to defend and advance the open web as a public good and a basic right.
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. He is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium.
Apple
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April 1, 1976
Apple prompted handset makers to abandon physical keyboards in favor of all-screen input and make thinner phones with much better screens capable of multi-touch input.
It contributed $350 billion into the US economy over the next five years and combining new investments and its existing spending with domestic companies for supply and manufacturing.
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
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Kasparov vs.Deep blue
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Feb 10, 1996 – May 11, 1997
A pair of six-game chess matches between world chess champion Garry Kasparov and an IBM supercomputer called Deep Blue
It was a sign that artificial intelligence was catching up to human intelligence, and could defeat one of humanity's great intellectual champions.
Garry Kasparov and an IBM supercomputer called Deep Blue
Sergey Brin and Larry Page
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September 4, 1998
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They were American computer scientists and Internet entrepreneurs. Together with Larry Page, he co-founded Google. Brin is the president of Google's parent company Alphabet.
It was a search engine that would sort web pages based on popularity.
Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Android
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September 23, 2008
mobile operating system designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.
allows phone manufacturers to produce relatively advanced devices without worrying about software-this makes them cheaper and gets them into the hands of more people.
Rich Miner, Nick Sears, Chris White, and Andy Rubin.
Watson
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2010
A question-answering computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language
IBM has opened Watson up to businesses and developers,allowing developers to use the cloud-based artificial intelligence system with their own programs
A research team led by principal investigator David Ferrucci
Samsung
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March 1, 1938
It is one of the world's largest producers of electronic devices. It Specializes the production of a wide variety of consumer and industry electronics, including appliances, digital media devices ETC
It was a simple business philosophy to devote talent and technology to creating superior products/ services that contribute to a better global society.
The South Korean company and Lee Byung-chul in 1938 as a trading company