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• BLAISE PASCAL- Pascaline
• GOTT FRIED LEIBNIZ- binary code
• GEORGE BOOLE-Boolean Alebra
• CHARLES BABBAGE- analytical engine
• HERMAN HOLLERITH- built tabulator
• HERMAN HOLLERITH- IBM
• VANNEVAR BUSH- world's most powerful calculator
• VANNEVAR BUSH-father of the digital computer
• ALAN TURING- ground breaking mathematical paper
• ALAN TURING- Turing machine
• ALAN TURING- father of modern computing
• Turing Test- plausible conversation of a computer with a real human being
• KONRAD ZUSE- Z1
• Z1- world's 1st programmable binary computer
• JOHN ATANASOFF and CLIFFORD BERRY- Atanasoff Berry Machine (ABC)
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• ASCC- 1st large-scale digital computer
• ASCC- huge mechanical calculator built into a wall
• COLOSUS- crack secret German codes
• COLOSUS- 1st fully electronic computer that could only do the code breaking but couldn't store a program
• LEE DE FOREST- vacuum tube
• LEE DE FOREST-father of radio
• JOHN MAUCHLY and J. PRESPER ECKERT- ENIAC
• Bug - problem that holds up a computer
• Bell Labs- public telephone system
• John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley are the persons behind Bell Labs
• John Bardeen and Walter Brattain made a point-contact transistor
• William Shockley failed in his semiconductor
• Transistor- world's greatest science prize
• Jack Kilby- Integrated Circuit "monolithic"
• Integrated Circuit is a collection of transistors and other components that could be manufactured all at once
• Intel- Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore
• Universal Chip- Federico Faggin and Marcian Edward