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Designed the first automatic calculator. His date of birth was given in his obituary in The Times as 26 December 1792; but then a nephew wrote to say that Babbage was born one year earlier, in 1791.
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was the first to take the punch card idea into computing. He was the founder of the Tabulating Machine Company that later merged to become IBM.
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1st freely programmable computer in the world. This computer was destroyed in the bombardment of Berlin in December 1943, during World War II, together with all construction plans.
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developed to calculate the settings used for weapons. It was actually financed by the US Army.
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Were the last to use vaccum tubes to store data. It took up an entire room.
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1st commercially successful electronic digital computer. The computer predicted an Eisenhower landslide when traditional pollsters all called it for Adlai Stevenson.
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computers than ran off the ENIAC program. Diode and transistor technology formed the basis of the electronic switches and the switching time came down to around 0.3 microseconds.
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Invented the world's first integrated software. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics on December 10, 2000.To congratulate him, US President Bill Clinton wrote, "You can take pride in the knowledge that your work will help to improve lives for generations to come."
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computers in the early integrated circuit. n this era, there were several innovations in various fields of computer technology. These include Integrated Circuits (ICs), Semiconductor Memories, Microprogramming, various patterns of parallel processing and introduction of Operating Systems and time-sharing. In the Integrated Circuit, division there was gradual progress.
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first basic language for computer programs. The acronym BASIC comes from the name of an unpublished paper by Thomas Kurtz.
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computers that used the micrprocessor chip. Core memories now were replaced by semiconductor memories and high-speed vectors dominated the scenario.
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marked the start of personal computer boom. The first time it was run, it displayed "READY" then Allen typed "PRINT 2+2" and it immediately printed the correct answer: "4".
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Worked on the famous video game Atari. He also was the founder of Apple. Jobs also co-founded and served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, when Disney acquired Pixar.
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First word processing program.
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first electronic spreadsheet application
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first portable computer. It is now classified as a luggage computer.
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1st desktop publishing GUI.
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One of the 1st spreadsheets to use GUI
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Was the co-founder of Micrsoft. Gates wrote the school's computer program to schedule students in classes. He modified the code so that he was placed in classes with "a disproportionate number of interesting girls."
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allowed users to view multimedia on the web. Web browsers such as Mosaic became the killer applications of the 1990s.
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featured color, sound, and an optional floppy disk. The first were assembled in Silicon Valley.
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became a predominant player in browser software.
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allowed users to interact with the computer at an easier rate. Found in MP3's and other portable media
