INST 201 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Darpa, Samuel Morse, Sherry Turkle
30 Nov 2016
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He secured the first patent for the telephone (there were others that were involved with inventing it) Sent morse code wirelessly more than 1 km, which sparked the creation of the first radio station after he received a british patent to develop radio (initially wireless telegraph system). Babbage was the first to conceive the idea of the programmable computer and created the. Lovelace wrote the first computer program using babbage"s analytical engine. Helped brits decode encrypted messages from germany"s enigma machine during. After the war, he began developing a machine that can process information which laid foundation for computer science as a discipline and artificial intelligence. Led to the development of arpanet (the precursor to the internet) This was started by the department of defense advanced research projects agency (darpa) who used arpanet as a military-based operation. Credited with inventing the world wide web in 1989 while working with cern.
