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The Science Museum has constructed two Difference Engines according to Babbage's plans for the Difference Engine No 2. One is owned by the museum. The other, owned by the technology multimillionaire Nathan Myhrvold, went on exhibition at the Computer History Museum [160] in Mountain View, California on 10 May 2008. [161]
List of computer science awards; List of computer scientists; List of Internet pioneers; List of people considered father or mother of a field § Computing; The Man Who Invented the Computer (2010 book) List of Russian IT developers; List of Women in Technology International Hall of Fame inductees; Timeline of computing; Turing Award; Women in ...
Anita Borg (1949–2003) – American computer scientist, founder of Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology; Bert Bos – Cascading Style Sheets; Mikhail Botvinnik – World Chess Champion, computer scientist and electrical engineer, pioneered early expert system AI and computer chess; Jonathan Bowen – Z notation, formal methods
SEAC was the U.S.'s first stored-program computer to become operational, having entered service in 1950. [ 6 ] In 1957, Kirsch's group developed a digital image scanner , to "trace variations of intensity over the surfaces of photographs", and made the first digital scans.
This machine invented the principle of the modern computer and was the birthplace of the stored program concept that almost all modern day computers use. [52] These hypothetical machines were designed to formally determine, mathematically, what can be computed, taking into account limitations on computing ability.
In the 1830s, the English scientist William Henry Fox Talbot independently invented a process to capture camera images using silver salts. [ 12 ] : 15 Although dismayed that Daguerre had beaten him to the announcement of photography, he submitted a pamphlet to the Royal Institution entitled Some Account of the Art of Photogenic Drawing on 31 ...
The first digital electronic computer was developed in the period April 1936 - June 1939, in the IBM Patent Department, Endicott, New York by Arthur Halsey Dickinson. [35] [36] [37] In this computer IBM introduced, a calculating device with a keyboard, processor and electronic output (display). The competitor to IBM was the digital electronic ...
Atanasoff invented the first electronic digital computer in the 1930s at Iowa State College (now known as Iowa State University). Challenges to his claim were resolved in 1973 when the Honeywell v. Sperry Rand lawsuit ruled that Atanasoff was the inventor of the computer.