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Pioneer of mainframe computing; designed IBM 704; chief architect of IBM System/360. [4] [5] Formulated Amdahl's law; also worked on IBM 709 and IBM 7030 Stretch. [6] 1939 Atanasoff, John: Built the first electronic digital computer, the Atanasoff–Berry Computer, though it was neither programmable nor Turing-complete. 1822, 1837 Babbage, Charles
John Alan Robinson (9 March 1930 – 5 August 2016) was a philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist.He was a professor emeritus at Syracuse University.. Alan Robinson's major contribution is to the foundations of automated theorem proving.
George Robert Stibitz (April 30, 1904 [1] – January 31, 1995) [2] was an American researcher at Bell Labs who is internationally recognized as one of the fathers of the modern digital computer. He was known for his work in the 1930s and 1940s on the realization of Boolean logic digital circuits using electromechanical relays as the switching ...
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 ]
John Corcoran (/ ˈ k ɔːr k ər ən / KOR-kər-ən; March 20, 1937 – January 8, 2021) was an American logician, philosopher, mathematician, and historian of logic.He is best known for his philosophical work on concepts such as the nature of inference, relations between conditions, argument-deduction-proof distinctions, the relationship between logic and epistemology, and the place of proof ...
In 1953, more than a century after her death, Ada Lovelace's notes on Babbage's Analytical Engine were republished as an appendix to B. V. Bowden's Faster than Thought: A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines. [78] The engine has now been recognised as an early model for a computer and her notes as a description of a computer and software. [65]
The History of Computing by J.A.N. Lee "Things that Count: the rise and fall of calculators" The History of Computing Project; SIG on Computers, Information and Society of the Society for the History of Technology; The Modern History of Computing; A Chronology of Digital Computing Machines (to 1952) by Mark Brader
Lee, J.A.N. (1995). Computer Pioneers. IEEE. ISBN 0-8186-6357-X. (the two Lee books are likely the same book, one printed in the U.S, the other in England) Lee, J.A.N. (1995). International Biographical Dictionary of Computer Pioneers. Routledge. ISBN 1-884964-47-8. Mims, Forrest M., III (1986). Siliconnections: Coming of Age in the Electronic Era.