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The ICL Computer Museum [83] (UK) MV Museu de Tecnologia (Brazil) Old Computer Museum; San Diego Computer Museum - Physical objects were donated to the San Diego State University Library, but still does online exhibits; Obsolete Computer Museum; Old-Computers.com; HP Computer Museum; Early Office Museum; IBM Archives; EveryMac.com
Designated a Challenger Learning Center, [7] the museum has a variety of camps, workshops, and other monthly events to generate interest in STEM, and hands-on exhibits.Now 20,000 square feet, the two-story building has a robotics lab, HD computer lab, and a wide range of interactive exhibits on Space Shuttle operations, living and working on the International Space Station, exploration of the ...
The Science Museum has constructed two Difference Engines according to Babbage's plans for the Difference Engine No 2. One is owned by the museum. The other, owned by the technology multimillionaire Nathan Myhrvold , went on exhibition at the Computer History Museum [ 160 ] in Mountain View, California on 10 May 2008. [ 161 ]
Influential in establishing computer science as an independent discipline of science; coined the term software engineering. Contributed to numerical analysis , fundamentals of interpretation and translation of programming languages, systematics of program development, program transformation , and cryptology .
The Computer History Museum claims to house the largest and most significant collection of computing artifacts in the world. [a] This includes many rare or one-of-a-kind objects such as a Cray-1 supercomputer as well as a Cray-2, Cray-3, the Utah teapot, the 1969 Neiman Marcus Kitchen Computer, an Apple I, and an example of the first generation of Google's racks of custom-designed web servers. [8]
The California Science Center (sometimes spelled California ScienCenter) is a state agency and science museum located in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, next to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and the University of Southern California.
The A-0 high-level compiler is invented by Grace Murray Hopper. April 1952: US IBM introduces the IBM 701, the first computer in its 700 and 7000 series of large scale machines with varied scientific and commercial architectures, but common electronics and peripherals. Some computers in this series remained in service until the 1980s.
National Medal of Science (US) in Mathematical, Statistical, and Computational Sciences (1990) [40] Inducted as a Fellow of the Computer History Museum "for his co-founding of the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and timesharing systems, and for major contributions to mathematics and computer science" (1999) [41]