module 9 sts

• Johannes Gutenberg


  German goldsmith who invented the printing press around 1440
• The Gutenberg Press

  Finding a way to improve the manual, tedious, and slow printing methods
• Printing press


  Device that applies pressure to an inked surface lying on a print medium to transfer ink
• Computers


  People who compiled actuarial tables and did engineering calculations
• Countries that opposed the Axis Powers

  • Germany
  • Japan
  • Italy
  • Hungary
  • Romania
  • Bulgaria
• Harvard Mark 1


  • General purpose electromechanical computer that was 50 feet long and capable of doing calculations in seconds that usually took people hours
• German Navy's Enigma Code


  Enciphering machine that the German armed forces used to securely send messages
• Alan Turing


  English mathematician hired in 1936 by the British top-secret Government Code and Cipher School at Bletchley Park
• Bombe


  Electromechanical machine that enabled the British to decipher encrypted messages of the German Enigma machine
• Turing Machine


  Can solve any problem from simple instructions encoded on a paper tape, became the foundation of computer science
• Electronic Brains


  The generation who witnessed the dawn of the computer age
• Homebrew Computer Club


  • Early computer hobbyist group that gathered regularly to trade parts of computer hardware and talked about how to make computers more accessible to everyone
• Steve Wozniak


  • Co-founder of Apple Inc. who developed the computer that made him famous, designed the operating system, hardware and circuit board of the computer all by himself
• Steve Jobs


  Wozniak's friend who suggested to sell the Apple I as a fully assembled printed circuit board
• Social media platforms

  • instant-messaging applications
  • bulletin board forum systems,
  • game-based social networking sites
  • business-oriented social networking websites
  • messaging, video and voice calling services
  • blogging platform, image and video and voice calling services
  • discovery and dating-oriented websites
  • video sharing services
  • real-time social media feed aggregator
  • live-streaming
  • photo-video sharing websites
  • question-and-answer platforms