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Kevin John Donnelly AM (born 1952) is an Australian educator, author and commentator. He is Senior Fellow at the Australian Catholic University 's PM Glynn Institute [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Donnelly has written numerous articles and books on contemporary developments in education, culture and politics.
The museum was founded by Lonnie Mimms, a commercial real estate developer and longtime computing artifact collector. He originally operated an Apple pop up museum, and includes rare artifacts including a Cray-1 , Apple I , Apple Lisa , a Pixar Image Computer , an Enigma , a Xerox Alto , a MITS Altair 8800 and more.
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
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 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 ]
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.
The Connection Machine (CM) is a member of a series of massively parallel supercomputers sold by Thinking Machines Corporation.The idea for the Connection Machine grew out of doctoral research on alternatives to the traditional von Neumann architecture of computers by Danny Hillis at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the early 1980s.
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 .