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List of computer names in science fiction Archived 8 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine – also includes androids, robots and aliens; Robot Hall of Fame at CMU – with fictional inductees HAL-9000 and R2-D2; Jokes about computers in science fiction Archived 19 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine
Multivac is a fictional supercomputer appearing in over a dozen science fiction stories by American writer Isaac Asimov.Asimov's depiction of Multivac, a mainframe computer accessible by terminal, originally by specialists using machine code and later by any user, and used for directing the global economy and humanity's development, has been seen as the defining conceptualization of the genre ...
Fictional female assassins. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Fictional assassins . It includes fictional assassins that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
The computer is an exaflop computer, but was not submitted to the TOP500 list; the first exaflop machine submitted to the TOP500 list was Frontier. Analysts suspected that the reason the NSCQ did not submit what would otherwise have been the world's first exascale supercomputer was to avoid inflaming political sentiments and fears within the ...
Computer Performance R; 1938 Germany: Personal research and development Berlin, Germany Konrad Zuse: Z1: 1.00 IPS [1] 1940 Z2: 1.25 IPS [2] 1941 Z3: 20.00 IPS [3] 1944 United Kingdom: Bletchley Park: Tommy Flowers and his team, Post Office Research Station: Colossus: 5.00 kIPS [4] 1945 United States: University of Pennsylvania: Moore School of ...
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This is a list of fictional characters from the Dark Sun campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. Most of these characters have appeared in the multiple Dark Sun source books or novels .
Mu (the name of the Greek letter μ) is a prefix in the SI and other systems of units denoting a factor of 10 −6 (one millionth). At the end of 1958, Ferranti agreed to collaborate with Manchester University on the project, and the computer was shortly afterwards renamed Atlas, with the joint venture under the control of Tom Kilburn.