Development History of Computer
|
Year |
Person |
Contribution |
|
3000 BC |
Chinese People |
Abacus |
|
1614 AD |
John Napier |
Logarithms |
|
1642 |
Blaise Pascal |
Pascaline |
|
1822 |
Charles Babbage(Father of computer) |
Difference Engine |
|
1840 |
Augusta Ada |
Suggested binary data rather than decimal |
|
1850 |
George Boole |
Introduce Boolean logic theory |
|
1880 |
Dr. Herman Hollerith |
Punched card |
|
1939 |
Attanasoff and Berry |
ABC Computer |
|
1940 |
Von-Neumann |
Presented a paper outlining to stored program |
|
1943 |
Turing |
vacuum tube |
|
1944 |
Aiken |
Mark-I |
|
1947 |
Mauchly and Eckert |
ENIAC |
|
1949 |
N. Wilkes |
EDSAC |
|
1949 |
Mauchly, Eckert and Von Neumann |
EDVAC |
|
1949 |
Wang |
Magnetic core memory |
|
1950 |
Turing |
ACE |
|
1950 |
Hopper |
UNIVAC – I compiler |
|
1951 |
Mauchly and Eckert |
UNIVAC – I Computer |
|
1957 |
Backus |
FORTAN |
|
1959 |
Kilby and Noyce |
Integrated Circuit (IC) |
|
1959 |
Hopper |
COBOL Programming |
|
1960 |
Amdahl |
IBM System/360 |
|
1963 |
Oisen |
The first microcomputer |
|
1965 |
Kemeny and Kurtz |
BASIC Programming |
|
1970 |
Hoff |
Intel 4004 Microprocessor chip |
|
1975 |
Roberts |
Altair -8800(first microcomputer) |
|
1976 |
Cray |
Cray- I (Super computer) |
|
1977 |
Steven jobs and Wozniak |
Apple microcomputer |
|
1980 |
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Built the personal computer |
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