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The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0385527132. OCLC 502029794 – via Internet Archive. Media. Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Hollar, John (January 27, 2011). Revolutionaries: The Man Who Invented the Computer with Author Jane Smiley. YouTube (video).
The Atanasoff–Berry computer (ABC) was the first automatic electronic digital computer. [1] The device was limited by the technology of the day. The ABC's priority is debated among historians of computer technology, because it was neither programmable , nor Turing-complete . [ 2 ]
The first digital electronic computer was developed in the period April 1936 - June 1939, in the IBM Patent Department, Endicott, New York by Arthur Halsey Dickinson. [35] [36] [37] In this computer IBM introduced, a calculating device with a keyboard, processor and electronic output (display). The competitor to IBM was the digital electronic ...
An abacus (pl.: abaci or abacuses), also called a counting frame, is a hand-operated calculating tool which was used from ancient times in the ancient Near East, Europe, China, and Russia, until the adoption of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system. [1] An abacus consists of a two-dimensional array of slidable beads (or similar objects). In their ...
As an analog computer does not use discrete values, but rather continuous values, processes cannot be reliably repeated with exact equivalence, as they can with Turing machines. [58] The first modern analog computer was a tide-predicting machine, invented by Sir William Thomson, later Lord Kelvin, in 1872. It used a system of pulleys and wires ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 January 2025. English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871) "Babbage" redirects here. For other uses, see Babbage (disambiguation). Charles Babbage KH FRS Babbage in 1860 Born (1791-12-26) 26 December 1791 London, England Died 18 October 1871 (1871-10-18) (aged 79) Marylebone, London ...
Computer Peripherals and Typesetting - a study of the man-machine interface incorporating a survey of computer peripherals and typographic composing equipment. Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO). Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO).
Invented the World Wide Web and sent the first HTTP communication between client and server. [15] 1995 Blum, Manuel: Contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking [16] 1966 Böhm, Corrado: Theorized of the concept of structured programming. 1847, 1854 Boole, George