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15 Cards in this Set
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Charles Babbage
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Father of Computing:
Analytical Engine Difference Engine |
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Ada Lovelace
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Mother of computer programming
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George Boole
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Boolean algebra system
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Herman Hollerith
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punch cards- major step towards automated computation
First statistical engineer founded TABULATING MACHINE COMPANY - EVENTUALLY NAMED IBM |
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Vannevar Bush
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Differential analyzer - analog computer
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Alan Turing
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founder of computer science;
deciphered the german war code,"enigma"; Helped create Colossus |
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Turing Machine
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an abstract representation of a computing device; thought is broken down in two parts: structure and process
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Algorithm
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a set of rules for sloving a problemin agiven number of steps; has a define starting and stopping point
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Analytical Engine
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introduced a number of computing concepts; was never constructed due to the large number of small moving parts that had to be hand-tooled.
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Bit (Binary Digit)
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is a single binary digit; fundamental data unit of personal computers; basic unit of measurement for computer storage; counted in powers of two
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Bus
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A collection of wires which connects two or more seperate electronic devices and the accompanying set of technologies that enables the devices to communicate
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Clone
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a personal computer based on the design and technology of the first IBM computer introduced to the market in 1981
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Colossus
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(developed during WWII) this was a code breaking machine designed to help the allies defeat the Nazis
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Command Line Interface (CLI)
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purely textual means of interacting with the computer. The MSDOS operating system used it
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Differnce Engine
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was intended to automatically compute mathamatical tables; this engine was designed to be hand cranked, however it was never actually assembled due to the large number of individual pieces that had to be hand-tooled
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