NATS 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Konrad Zuse, David Hilbert, Programmable Calculator
14 Sep 2013
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Lecture 5 - the dawn of automatic computing. By the 1930s, mechanical and electromechanical calculators from burroughs, felt. & tarrant, marchant, monroe, remington, victor, and other manufacturers had all aspects of modern office operations. *the 1930s was a crucial period in the development of computing: newer designs of computers started to appear in europe and us, ground breaking theoretical research on computing was initiated. Alan turing: a british mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst whose contributions to the science of computing were not only large in scope but also groundbreaking: best known for his outstanding contributions to cryptography during. Wwii when at bletchley park, he (and others) worked successfully on breaking german ciphers. Using his amazing mathematics of computing he created the first ever general-purpose and universal computer out of a few symbols written on a piece of paper. In honor of its inventor, that device is now called the.
