Download Computers of the Past and Future

Brian Jerke
Steve Jobs
Bill Gates
Grace Hopper- recorded the first actual computer
"bug" a moth stuck between the relays, helped
Harvard program the Harvard Mark I and II, and
developed the first compiler, A-0.
Alan Turing- published his seminal paper, "On
Computable Numbers," in 1936, as well as posing
significant questions about judging "human
intelligence" and programming and working on the
design of several computers during the course of his
career.
Robots
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Artificial Intelligence
UNIMATE, the first industrial robot,
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Norbert Wiener published "Cybernetics,“
began work at General Motors. Obeying
a major influence on later research into
step-by-step commands stored on a
artificial intelligence. Wiener coined the
magnetic drum, the 4,000-pound arm
term "cybernetics" from the Greek word
sequenced and stacked hot pieces of diefor "steersman."
cast metal
Victor Scheinman´s Stanford Arm made
a breakthrough as the first successful
electrically powered, computercontrolled robot arm.
SRI International´s Shakey
became the first mobile robot
controlled by artificial
intelligence. Equipped with
sensing devices and driven by a
problem-solving program called
STRIPS, the robot found its way
around the halls of SRI by
applying information about its
environment to a route.
Computers of the Past
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HP- David Packard and Bill
Hewlett found Hewlett-Packard
in a Palo Alto, California
garage. Their first product was
the HP 200A Audio Oscillator
The UNIVAC I delivered to the
U.S. Census Bureau was the
first commercial computer to
attract widespread public
attention.
The Apple II became an instant
success when released in 1977
with its printed circuit
motherboard, switching power
supply, keyboard, case
assembly, manual, game
paddles, A/C powercord, and
cassette tape with the computer
game "Breakout."
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Magnetic tape allows for inexpensive mass storage of information and so
is a key part of the computer revolution. The IBM 726 was one of the first
practical high-speed magnetic tape systems for electronic digital
computers.
The era of magnetic disk storage dawned with IBM´s shipment of a 305
RAMAC to Zellerbach Paper in San Francisco.
Virtual memory permitted a computer to use its storage capacity to switch
rapidly among multiple programs or users and is a key requirement for
timesharing.
An IBM team, originally led by David Noble, invented the 8-inch floppy
diskette.
Hard disks are an essential part of the computer revolution, allowing fast,
random access to large amounts of data.
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Pong is released in 1966. Nolan Bushnell hired
young engineer Al Alcorn to design a car driving
game, but when it became apparent that this was
too ambitious for the time, he had Alcorn to
design a version of ping-pong instead.
ID Software released Doom in late 1993. An
immersive first-person shooter-style game, Doom
became popular on many different platforms
before losing popularity to games like Halo and
Counter-Strike.