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A computer is a programmable device for processing, storing, and displaying information. Learn more in this article about modern digital electronic computers and their design, constituent parts, and applications as well as about the history of computing.
Technology is the application of scientific knowledge to the practical aims of human life or, as it is sometimes phrased, to the change manipulation of the human environment. From hand tools to computers and engineering, technology encompasses it all.
Computer - History, Technology, Innovation: A computer might be described with deceptive simplicity as “an apparatus that performs routine calculations automatically.” Such a definition would owe its deceptiveness to a naive and narrow view of calculation as a strictly mathematical process.
computer science, the study of computers and computing, including their theoretical and algorithmic foundations, hardware and software, and their uses for processing information.
Artificial intelligence (AI), the ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings. The term is frequently applied to the project of developing systems with the ability to reason, discover meaning, generalize, or learn from past experiences.
Computer - Technology, Invention, History: By the second decade of the 19th century, a number of ideas necessary for the invention of the computer were in the air. First, the potential benefits to science and industry of being able to automate routine calculations were appreciated, as they had not been a century earlier.
History of technology, the development over time of systematic techniques for making and doing things. The term technology, a combination of the Greek techne, ‘art, craft,’ with logos, ‘word, speech,’ meant in Greece a discourse on the arts, both fine and applied.
A computer network consists of two or more computers that are connected to each other to communicate data electronically. Two basic network types are local area networks (LANs) and wide area networks (WANs).
digital computer, any of a class of devices capable of solving problems by processing information in discrete form. It operates on data, including magnitudes, letters, and symbols, that are expressed in binary code —i.e., using only the two digits 0 and 1.
hardware, computer machinery and equipment, including memory, cabling, power supply, peripheral devices, and circuit boards. Computer operation requires both hardware and software. Hardware design specifies a computer’s capability; software instructs the computer on what to do.