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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. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-10-31
Turing Test – The British mathematician and computer pioneer Alan Turing published a paper describing the potential development of human and computer intelligence and communication. The paper would come later to be called the Turing Test. 1950: US TIME magazine cover story on the Harvard "Mark III: Can man build a superman
Engines of the Mind: The Evolution of the Computer from Mainframes to Microprocessors. W.W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-31471-5. Smith, Ludovic D. (2006). Crash! The Story of the Computer and IT from Babbage to the Era of Internet Worms, Open Source, Web Services and SOA. Corrillium Press Limited. ISBN 0-9552634-0-9. Williams, Michael R. (1997).
Third-generation computers were offered well into the 1990s; for example the IBM ES9000 9X2 announced April 1994 [30] used 5,960 ECL chips to make a 10-way processor. [31] Other third-generation computers offered in the 1990s included the DEC VAX 9000 (1989), built from ECL gate arrays and custom chips, [32] and the Cray T90 (1995).
The "brain" [computer] may one day come down to our level [of the common people] and help with our income-tax and book-keeping calculations. But this is speculation and there is no sign of it so far. — British newspaper The Star in a June 1949 news article about the EDSAC computer, long before the era of the personal computers.
Digital Retro: The Evolution and Design of the Personal Computer is a coffee table book [1] [2] about the history of home computers and personal computers.It was written by Gordon Laing, a former editor of Personal Computer World magazine [1] and covers the period from 1975 to 1988 (the era before widespread adoption of PC compatibility).
January 2: Brad Cox, American computer scientist, and inventor of the Objective-C programming language (b. 1944) January 28: Alice Recoque, French computer scientist (b. 1929) February 1: Walter Savitch, American computer scientist and theoretical mathematician (b. 1943) February 6: Ioan Dzițac, Romanian computer scientist and mathematician (b ...
An excellent computer history site; the present article is a modified version of his timeline, used with permission. The Evolution of the Modern Computer (1934 to 1950): An Open Source Graphical History, article from Virtual Travelog