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  2. History of computer science - Wikipedia

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    The history of computer science began long before the modern discipline of computer science, usually appearing in forms like mathematics or physics. Developments in previous centuries alluded to the discipline that we now know as computer science. [ 1 ]

  3. Timeline of scientific computing - Wikipedia

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    This decade marks the first major strides to a modern computer, and hence the start of the modern era. Fermi's Rome physics research group (informal name I ragazzi di Via Panisperna ) develop statistical algorithms based on Comte de Buffon's work, that would later become the foundation of the Monte Carlo method .

  4. Timeline of computing - Wikipedia

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    Stephen White, A Brief History of Computing; The Computer History in time and space, Graphing Project, an attempt to build a graphical image of computer history, in particular operating systems. The Computer Revolution/Timeline at Wikibooks "File:Timeline.pdf - Engineering and Technology History Wiki" (PDF). ethw.org. 2012.

  5. List of pioneers in computer science - Wikipedia

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    Influential in establishing computer science as an independent discipline of science; coined the term software engineering. Contributed to numerical analysis , fundamentals of interpretation and translation of programming languages, systematics of program development, program transformation , and cryptology .

  6. History of computing - Wikipedia

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    Eventually, the concept of numbers became concrete and familiar enough for counting to arise, at times with sing-song mnemonics to teach sequences to others. All known human languages, except the Piraha language, have words for at least the numerals "one" and "two", and even some animals like the blackbird can distinguish a surprising number of items.

  7. Timeline of computing 1950–1979 - Wikipedia

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    SEAC (Standards Eastern Automatic Computer) demonstrated at US NBS in Washington, DC – was the first fully functional stored-program computer in the U.S. May 1950: UK The Pilot ACE computer, with 800 vacuum tubes, and mercury delay lines for its main memory, became operational on 10 May 1950 at the National Physical Laboratory near London.

  8. Steve Russell (computer scientist) - Wikipedia

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    Spacewar! on the Computer History Museum's PDP-1, 2007. Stephen Russell (born 1937), [1] also nicknamed "Slug", [1] is an American computer scientist most famous for creating Spacewar!, well known for being the first widely distributed video game.

  9. Timeline of computing 1980–1989 - Wikipedia

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    Date Location Event January United Kingdom (UK) Sinclair ZX80 was released for under £100.: 22 May Japan: The game Pac-Man was released. [1]June United States (US) Commodore released the VIC-20, which had 3.5 KB of usable memory and was based on the MOS Technology 6502 processor.