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Abraham Stern demonstrating one of his calculating machines in Warsaw. Abraham Jacob Stern (Yiddish: אברהם יעקב שטערן; 1762 or 1769 – 3 February 1842) was a Polish Jewish maskil, inventor, educator, and poet. He is known for his mechanical calculators. [3] [4]
A human computer, with microscope and calculator, 1952. It was not until the mid-20th century that the word acquired its modern definition; according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first known use of the word computer was in a different sense, in a 1613 book called The Yong Mans Gleanings by the English writer Richard Brathwait: "I haue [] read the truest computer of Times, and the best ...
Jacob A. Abraham is an American computer scientist and engineer who is a professor emeritus and currently the Cockrell Family Regents Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Association for Computing ...
It teaches fundamental principles of computer programming, including recursion, abstraction, modularity, and programming language design and implementation. MIT Press published the first edition in 1984, and the second edition in 1996. It was formerly used as the textbook for MIT's introductory course in computer science.
The Computer Language Benchmarks Game (formerly called The Great Computer Language Shootout) is a free software project for comparing how a given subset of simple algorithms can be implemented in various popular programming languages. The project consists of: A set of very simple algorithmic problems
The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP) is a comprehensive monograph written by the computer scientist Donald Knuth presenting programming algorithms and their analysis. Volumes 1–5 are intended to represent the central core of computer programming for sequential machines.
Avi Silberschatz (born in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli computer scientist and researcher.He is known for having authored many influential texts in computer science. He finished high school at the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa, and graduated in 1976 with a Ph.D. in computer science from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook.
IBM 610 Auto-Point Computer: Developer: John Lentz, as part of his work for the Watson Lab at Columbia University: Manufacturer: IBM: Type: Personal computer: Release date: 1957; 68 years ago () Introductory price: $55,000 (or rented for $1150 per month ($460 academic)) Units shipped: 180: Removable storage: Punched paper tape: Weight: 800 ...