EECS 1520 Lecture 1: History of Computing

• School: York University
• Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Course: EECS 1520
• Professor: Gerald Kio

Document Summary

Blaise pascal- decimal calculator, could add and subtract by turning dials. Jacquard loom (1801) used punch cards to define complex pattern, patterns woven into textiles. Punch cards later used to code computer programs. First true pioneer of modern computing machines. Designed two calculator machines, neither of which was practical to build. -ada lovelace wrote programs for difference machine and analytical engine to calculate. -invariant theory (later used by einstein in theory of relativity) -1937: introduced application of boolean logic in creating digital computing machines. -1948: published a mathematical theory of communication which establishes the. Claude shannon principles for encoding info so it can be reliably transmitted electronically. -led ww2 research group which broke the code. -proposed a simple abstract universal machine model for defining computability called. -z3: first programmable turing complete computer used telephone relay. -eniac: electronic numerical integrator and computer was the first general-purpose. -1937: atanasoff-berry computer (abc) by john vincent atanasoff and clifford berry.