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Stephen White, A Brief History of Computing; 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.
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.
This decade marks the first major strides to a modern computer, and hence the start of the modern era. Fermi's Rome physics research group (informal name I ragazzi di Via Panisperna ) develop statistical algorithms based on Comte de Buffon's work, that would later become the foundation of the Monte Carlo method .
February 6: Ioan Dzițac, Romanian computer scientist and mathematician (b. 1953) March 6: Lou Ottens, Dutch engineer and inventor of the cassette tape (b. 1926) April 1: Isamu Akasaki, Japanese engineer and physicist, and inventor of the blue LED (b. 1929) April 16: Charles Geschke, American computer scientist, and co-founder of Adobe Inc. (b ...
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.
Macintosh computer (introduced) Apple Computer 1984: CD-ROM player for personal computers: Philips 1984: First music synthesizer (Kurzweil K250) capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments: Kurzweil Music Systems: 1984: Amiga computer (introduced) Commodore 1985: 300,000 simultaneous telephone conversations over ...
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[4] [5] [6] Aristotle also described means–ends analysis (an algorithm for planning) in Nicomachean Ethics, the same algorithm used by Newell and Simon's General Problem Solver (1959). [7] 3rd century BC Ctesibius invents a mechanical water clock with an alarm. This was the first example of a feedback mechanism. [citation needed] 1st century