Computer Pioneers

Byte

8 bits grouped together

Bit

A binary digit, a 0 or a 1.

ASCII codes

A way for people across the world to communicate through machine language. Represents 127 bits of characters.

John Von Neumann

Childhood math and mechanical genius; Worked on the ENIAC project and left to work on the Manhatten Project and DNA Project.

Alan Turing

Cracked the Enigma Machine; Developed a machine called "Christopher" to solve any problem, not just for war-time purposes.

Grace Hopper

Developed Machine Language for the Mark I and Univac I; coined the words "bug" and "debug";

Blaise Pascal

Developed the Pascaline. Childhood genius.

DOS

Disk Operating System; developed by Microsoft. Now multiple "windows", or jobs, could be opened at the same time.

Altair 8800

First "computer kit"; commercial failure; invented by Ed Roberts.

Apple Lisa

First PC with GUI's; Developed by Apple Computers.

UNIVAC I

First commercial computer for big business, banks.

Lady Ada Lovelace

First computer programmer. Used punch cards. Programming language named after this person. Believed music would one day be played on the Difference Engine, or Computer.

Symbolics.com

First domain name is registered on the Internet.

mouse

First prototype of this device and the GUI were invented by Douglas Engelhart.

Microsoft Corp.

Formed in 1975 by Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Steve Ballmer in Seattle.

Fortran language

Formula Translator language; Used to put the first man on the moon.

Charles Babbage

He developed the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine. Mechanical genius. His machine needed a programming language.

#FFFFFF and #000000

Hex digital colors of black and white

UNIX operating system

Open-source; developed by Bell Labs; the answer to batch processing.

Apple Computers

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak formed this company in 1977 in a garage in California.

Computer Architecture

The internal, logical structure and organisation of the computer hardware; has 6 Units.

Apple II

This computer made history; First PC.

Pirates of Silicon Valley

movie on software and hardware theft

Hidden Figures

movie on women getting the first man to the moon

Von Neumann's computer architecture

computer architecture

ENIAC I

US Army used this mainframe computer for Trajectory Missiles.

Herman Hollerith

US Census of 1890; known as Father of Computing. Used Punch Cards in his Tabulating Machine.