CS250 Lectures (1-2)

What is BANG?

Pursuit of many niche courses, each covering a single aspect of the field

Sequence of steps to accomplish desired objectives

_____ invented the logarithm, which became the principle of the slide rule (invented circa 1620)

____ _____ designed and built an arithmetic machine in 1642 to add and subtract

In 1819, ______ designed a machine of gears, shafts, and wheels that could calculate tables of arithmetic numbers such as logarithms

1890 US census, _____’s punched card machines tabulated large amounts of data ¤ Jacquard’s loom (1801) was the first place where punched cards were used

Modern computer systems design

Has it origins dating back to ____ as part of work on ENIAC

Modern computer systems design

Breaks up a computing machine into three main subsystems:

¤ The ___ for performing arithmetic operations

¤ The ____ for storage of instructions and data

¤ The ___-____

At its core, modern computers harnesses the ______ __ _____ in circuits to carry out computations