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A computer scientist who teaches in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, contributor to the GNU operating system for over thirty years and current maintainer of the Time Zone Database. [460] [461] [462] FSF Free Software Awards – Social benefit award 2020 CiviCRM
Atlas Supervisor (Manchester University) (Atlas computer project start) BESYS , for IBM 704, later IBM 7090 and IBM 7094; 1958 University of Michigan Executive System (UMES), for IBM 704, 709, and 7090; 1959 SHARE Operating System (SOS), based on GM-NAA I/O
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
Google has unveiled a new quantum computer chip that cracks a '30-year challenge in the field' Beatrice Nolan. Updated December 11, 2024 at 9:30 AM. ... To show progress, quantum computers must ...
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.
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 ...
Some of their early uses were in embedded systems, notably used by NASA for the Apollo Guidance Computer, by the military in the LGM-30 Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile, the Honeywell ALERT airborne computer, [20] [21] and in the Central Air Data Computer used for flight control in the US Navy's F-14A Tomcat fighter jet.
Six Metrovick 950s were built, the first completed in 1956. They were successfully deployed within various departments of the company and were in use for about five years. [146] A second generation computer, the IBM 1401, captured about one third of the world market. IBM installed more than ten thousand 1401s between 1960 and 1964.