is used primarily for multiplication and division, and also for functions such as exponents, roots, logarithms, and trigonometry, but typically not for addition or subtraction.

was a digital mechanical calculator invented by the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz around 1672 and completed in 1694

referred also as the first adding machine constructed with the use of sliding beads on small wooden rods

In 1642, a Frenchman named Blaise Pascal Invented the Pascaline. His invention used gear driven wheels to do addition

A computer might be described with deceptive simplicity as an "________________" that

performs routine calculations automatically.

This device which is still used at present, is controlled by cards in which holes are strategically punched. The punched cards are sequenced to indicate a particular weaving device.

The inventor of the Arithmometer

Considered as the father of Modern Computer

A steam powered engine used for adding and other mathematical operations. He conceptualize that math problems were just repetitive operations

The inventor of Stepped Reckoner

The first computer systems used __________________ for circuitry and magnetic drums for memory, and were often enormous, taking up entire rooms

The official name is the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator

This First Generation Computer was invented by Presper Eckert and John Mauchly in 1946

The world would see _________________ replace vacuum tubes in the second generation of computers

These were also the first computers that stored their instructions in their ________________ , which moved from a magnetic drum to magnetic core technology.

The development of the ______________________ was the hallmark of the third generation of computers

Instead of punched cards and printouts, users interacted with third generation computers through _________________ and monitors and interfaced with an operating system

The ____________________ brought the fourth generation of computers, as thousands of integrated circuits were built onto a single silicon chip

As these small computers became more ______________ , they could be linked together to form networks, which eventually led to the development of the Internet.

Fifth generation computing devices, based on artificial ___________________ , are still in development, though there are some applications, such as voice recognition, that are being used today.

A computer is an electronic and ________________ device that can receive, process/manipulate, store and retrieve data in order to generate and produce useful information

a computer must be able to _______________ or save information like programs and data to be used at another time

Most importantly, a computer must be able to _______________ information. A computer must be able to manipulate and transform information it has stored.

the procedure of feeding data into a computer

Once data has been processed into information, the computer then must produce and present that information in a form you can understand

They can increase the amount of work we can do in a given amount of time when we are using computers

The internet provides unlimited ______________ to virtually any data and information in the world

– the computers ability to let us process and store massive amounts of data, and its ability to convert this data into useful information

Refers to the all the programs that are installed and used in the computer, that enables the computer to be programmable

is any piece of computer hardware equipment used to communicate

the results of data processing carried out by an information

processing system which converts the

electronically generated information into human-readable form.

is an external

hardware device responsible

for taking computer data and

generating a hard copy of that

data

is a peripheraldevice used to provide data and control signals to an information processing system such as a computer or information appliance

Moving a ______________ along a flat surface can move the on-screen cursor to different items on the screen. Items can be moved or selected by pressing the buttons of this device

is a ________________ that feeds or streams its image in real time to or through a computer to computer network

Instructs the rest of the computer system how to carry out a program’s instructions

It also directs these control signals between the CPU and input and output devices

Is the holding area for data, instructions and information. It is contained on chips connected to the system board

is a device for recording information . Recording can be done using virtually any form of energy, spanning from manual muscle power in handwriting, to acoustic vibrations in phonographic recording, to electromagnetic energy modulating magnetic tape and optical discs

are the fastest and the most expensive computers. These huge computers are used to solve very complex science and engineering problems

was created to distinguish the traditional, large, institutional computer intended to service multiple users from the smaller, single user machines. These computers are capable of handling and processing very large amounts of data quickly

is a data storage device that uses integrated circuit assemblies as memory to store data persistently

A midsized computer, it is in between a micro computer and mainframe computer, a computer for multiprocessing system capable of supporting from 4 to 100 users simultaneously

is an electronic non-volatile computer storage medium that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed

is a computer input device that enables a user to hand-draw images, animations and graphics, similar to the way a person draws images with a pencil and paper