When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Charles Babbage - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage

    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 February 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 ...

  3. Bill English (computer engineer) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_English_(computer...

    [5] [6] English led a 1965 project, sponsored by NASA, which evaluated the best way to select a point on a computer display; the mouse was the winner. [ 4 ] [ 7 ] English was also instrumental at The Mother of All Demos in 1968, which showcased the mouse and other technologies developed as part of their NLS (oN-Line System).

  4. Douglas Engelbart - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart

    Douglas Carl Engelbart (January 30, 1925 – July 2, 2013) was an American engineer, inventor, and a pioneer in many aspects of computer science.He is best known for his work on founding the field of human–computer interaction, particularly while at his Augmentation Research Center Lab in SRI International, which resulted in creation of the computer mouse, [a] and the development of ...

  5. Computer mouse - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_mouse

    A computer mouse with the most common features: two buttons (left and right) and a scroll wheel (which can also function as a button when pressed inwards) A typical wireless computer mouse. A computer mouse (plural mice, also mouses) [nb 1] is a hand-held pointing device that detects two-dimensional motion relative to a surface

  6. List of pioneers in computer science - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pioneers_in...

    Helped establish and taught the first graduate course in computer science (at Harvard); invented the APL programming language; contributions to interactive computing 1801 Jacquard, Joseph Marie: Built and demonstrated the Jacquard loom, a programmable mechanized loom controlled by a tape constructed from punched cards 1206 Al-Jazari

  7. History of computer science - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computer_science

    This machine invented the principle of the modern computer and was the birthplace of the stored program concept that almost all modern day computers use. [52] These hypothetical machines were designed to formally determine, mathematically, what can be computed, taking into account limitations on computing ability.

  8. Ivan Sutherland - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Sutherland

    Ivan Edward Sutherland (born May 16, 1938) [6] is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer, widely regarded as a pioneer of computer graphics. [7] His early work in computer graphics as well as his teaching with David C. Evans in that subject at the University of Utah in the 1970s was pioneering in the field.

  9. Robert Taylor (computer scientist) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Taylor_(computer...

    The presentations and argumentation were a small part of a deal session (they did quite bother visiting Xeroids). It was quite rare for anything like a personal attack to happen (because people for the most part came into PARC having been blessed by everyone there -- another Taylor rule -- and already knowing how 'to argue reasonably')." [19]