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Shakuntala Devi (4 November 1929 – 21 April 2013) was an Indian mental calculator, astrologer, and writer, popularly known as the "Human Computer".Her talent earned her a place in the 1982 edition of The Guinness Book of World Records.
A manual console served as the input/output control unit of the computer. The software of TIFRAC were written in a series of commands of 0s and 1s ( machine code ). A British-built HEC 2M computer, happened to be the first digital computer in India, which was imported and installed in Indian Statistical Institute , Kolkata, during 1955.
Smalltalk was used by Apple to launch Apple Lisa in 1983, the first personal computer with a GUI, and a year later its Macintosh. Windows 1.0, based on the same principles, was launched a few months later in 1985. [129] [130] In the late 1970s, women such as Paulson and Sue Finley wrote programs for the Voyager mission. [131]
Rangaswamy Narasimhan (April 17, 1926 – September 3, 2007) was an Indian computer and cognitive scientist, regarded by many as the father of computer science research in India. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He led the team which developed the TIFRAC , the first Indian indigenous computer [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and was instrumental in the establishment of CMC Limited in ...
In 1953-54, India's first indigenous electronic analogue computer for solving linear equations with 10 variables and related problems was designed and developed by Samarendra Kumar Mitra and was built under his direct personal supervision and guidance by Ashish Kumar Maity in the Computing Machines and Electronics Laboratory at the [1] (ISI ...
The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) was the first electronic general-purpose computer, announced to the public in 1946. It was Turing-complete, [45] digital, and capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems. Women implemented the programming for machines like the ENIAC, and men created the ...
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Mary Allen Wilkes was the first person to use a computer in a private home (in 1965) and the first developer of an operating system (LAP) for the first minicomputer . [52] Sister Mary Kenneth Keller became the first American woman to earn a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1965. [53]