J 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Commercium, Digital Equipment Corporation, The American Weekly

• School: University of Oregon
• Department: Journalism
• Course: J 201
• Professor: Professor Bish Sen

Document Summary

Boolean british mathematician created boolean algebra algebra that deals with things that are true or false. Digitization: perfect copying and preservation, instant transmission, manipulation (cut and paste, photo shop) Internet: the third greatest revolution was connecting computers together in networks. Computer theoreticians: von neumann, a hungarian mathematician, wrote a report in 1945, allan turing. Harvard-ibm mark 1: in 1944 a collaboration between ibm and harvard university led to the creation of the. The project was led by brilliant engineer named howard aiken: the machine realized babbage"s dream of fully automatic calculation and the american. Developments: shift to silicon at texas instruments in 1954, invention of the integrated circuit in 1957 by kilby and noyce, co-founder of fairchild, invention of the microprocessor by intel engineer ted hoff in 1971. Eniac: the eniac was the first electronic calculator, using vacuum tubes which were part of radio and tv. Crunch numbers for military manner or scientific manner.