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Smith's book If the World Were a Village: A Book About the World's People, illustrated by Shelagh Armstrong, has won a number of awards. [3] Premio H.C.Andersen Award in 2003 for the Italian Edition. International Reading Association Children's Book Award 2003; IRA and Children's Book Council Children's Choice Book for 2003
David Canfield Smith is an American computer scientist best known for inventing computer icons and the programming technique known as programming by demonstration. His primary emphasis has been in the area of human–computer interaction (CHI) design. His goal was to make computers easier for ordinary people to use.
The first book containing specific instructions about how to program a computer may have been Maurice Wilkes, David Wheeler, and Stanley Gill's Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer (1951). The book offered a selection of common subroutines for handling basic operations on the EDSAC, one of the world’s first stored ...
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.
How a cake company pioneered the first office computer BBC video interview with Mary Coombs, who worked on the first LEO computer and was the first woman to become a commercial computer programmer; Oral history interview with John M. M. Pinkerton, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. Pinkerton describes his work on LEO computers.
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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 ...
David Alan Smith (born 1957, in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina) is an American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and CTO of the Croquet Corporation. He has focused on interactive 3D and using 3D as a basis for new user environments and entertainment for over twenty years.