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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 ...
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 "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.
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
The history of computer science began long before the modern discipline of computer science, usually appearing in forms like mathematics or physics. Developments in previous centuries alluded to the discipline that we now know as computer science. [ 1 ]
History of artificial intelligence; History of compiler construction; History of computer animation; History of computer science; History of computing hardware (1960s–present) History of floating-point arithmetic; History of hypertext; History of numerical solution of differential equations using computers; History of operating systems ...
Computer Literature Survey: A Key to the Language of Computers. IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Misa, Thomas J. (2009). "Bibliography for History of Computing". Charles Babbage Institute; Pritchard, Alan (1969). A Guide to Computer Literature. Archon Books. Rojas, Raul (2001). Encyclopedia of Computers and Computer History. Routledge.
The book has been reviewed in the following journals and magazines: The American Mathematical Monthly [2] Business History [3] The International Journal of Electrical Engineering & Education [4] Isis [5] Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A [6] Library Journal [7] London Review of Books [8] Mathematical Reviews [9] Mathematics of ...