Jacques de Vaucanson 1709-1782

Son of a _________-maker, aspired to be a clock-maker.

Jacques de Vaucanson 1709-1782

-1727-1743 – Created a series of mechanical automations that simulated ________.

Jacques de Vaucanson 1709-1782

Best remembered is the “Digesting _______”, which had over 400 parts.

1805 - Jacquard Loom First fully automated and programmable Loom Used _________ cards to “program” the pattern to be woven into cloth.

Charles Babbage 1791-1871

_________ mathematician, engineer, philosopher and inventor.

Charles Babbage 1791-1871

Originated the concept of the programmable ____________, and designed one.

1822 – Difference Engine

Numerical tables were constructed by ________ using large numbers of human “computers” (one who computes).

1822 – Difference Engine

Annoyed by the many human __________ this produced, Charles Babbage designed a “difference engine” that could calculate values of polynomial functions.

True or False- The Difference Engine was never completed, although much work was done and money spent.

Charles ___________ first described a general purpose analytical engine in 1837, but worked on the design until his death in 1871. It was never built.

As designed, the analytical engine would have been programmed using punch-cards and would have included features such as sequential control, loops, conditionals and branching. If constructed, it would have been the first “____________” as we think of them today.

Kurt Gödel 1906-1978

Famous for his _______________theorem This theorem implies that not all mathematical questions are computable (can be solved).

Alan Turing 1912-1954

___________ mathematician and cryptographer. Father of theoretical computer science.

Alan Turnings Contributions include: Turing __________, Turing Test (for AI)‏

1936 – Konrad Zuse – Z1 Computer

First freely _____________ computer, electro-mechanical punch tape control.

The IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC) Computer was created by ________ for Harvard University, which called it the Mark I. First universal calculator.

The Colossus Mark I & II are widely acknowledged as the first programmable electric computers, and were used at Bletchley Park to decode _________ codes encrypted by the Lorenz SZ40/42.

1946 –John Eckert & John W. Mauchly – ENIAC 1 Computer

ENIAC was short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer. It was the first general purpose (programmable to solve any problem) __________ computer.

The ENIAC contained over 17,000 vacuum tubes, weighed 27 tones and drew 150 kW of _________ to operate.

1947 –The ___________

Invented by William Shockley (seated) John Bardeen & Walter Brattain at Bell Labs.

The transistor replaces bulky vacuum tubes with a smaller, more reliable, and power saving ________ sate circuit.

First ____________computer - Between 1951 and 1958, 47 UNIVAC I computers were delivered.

1953 – IBM 701 EDPM Computer

IBM enters the market with its first _______ scale electronic computer.

The IBM 701 EDPM Computer was designed to be incomparable with IBM's existing punch card processing system, so that it would not cut into IBM's existing _________ sources.

Grace Hopper 1906-1992

Developed the first ________ while working at the Remington Rand corporation on the UNIVAC I.

John Backus & IBM invent the first successful high level programming __________, and compiler, that ran on IBM 701 computers.

Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments & Robert Noyce at Fairchild semiconductor independently invent the first integrated circuits or “the _______”.

Jack Kilby was awarded the National Medal of ________ and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, and received the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the integrated circuit.