enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Computer - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer

    A human computer, with microscope and calculator, 1952. It was not until the mid-20th century that the word acquired its modern definition; according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first known use of the word computer was in a different sense, in a 1613 book called The Yong Mans Gleanings by the English writer Richard Brathwait: "I haue [] read the truest computer of Times, and the best ...

  3. History of computing - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing

    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 ...

  4. Computing - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing

    Computer simulation, one of the main cross-computing methodologies. Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computing machinery. [1] It includes the study and experimentation of algorithmic processes, and the development of both hardware and software. Computing has scientific, engineering, mathematical ...

  5. CS50 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CS50

    CS50 (Computer Science 50) [a] is an introductory course on computer science taught at Harvard University by David J. Malan. The on-campus version of the course is Harvard's largest class with 800 students, 102 staff, and up to 2,200 participants in their regular hackathons .

  6. Timeline of computing 1950–1979 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_computing_1950...

    The first computer to use magnetic tape. EDVAC could have new programs loaded from the tape. Proposed by John von Neumann, it was installed at the Institute for Advance Study, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, US. 1951: Australia CSIRAC used to play music – the first time a computer was used as a musical instrument. 1951: US

  7. Moore School Lectures - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_School_Lectures

    Theory and Techniques for Design of Electronic Digital Computers (popularly called the "Moore School Lectures") was a course in the construction of electronic digital computers held between July 8, 1946 and August 30, 1946 at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania, and was the first time any computer topics had ever been taught to an assemblage of people.

  8. History of software - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_software

    The first known computer algorithm was written by Ada Lovelace in the 19th century for the Analytical Engine, to translate Luigi Menabrea's work on Bernoulli numbers for machine instruction. [3] However, this remained theoretical only - the lesser state of engineering in the lifetime of these two mathematicians proved insufficient [ citation ...

  9. Computer science - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science

    Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. [1] [2] [3] Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to applied disciplines (including the design and implementation of hardware and software).