Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Friday questions over movie

ASCII- A standard way to assign numerical values to the set of letters in the Roman alphabet and typographic characters.

Charles Baddage- Scientist who relied on mathematic, scientific charts.

Herman Hollerith- One of the founders of the modern information processor. His company became part of IBM.

Colossus- A computer like machine that would stop the inigma. Preformed logical things to break German codes.

Mawchley & Eckert- The inventors of Eniac, larger then the colossus. And completed three months after the Japanese surrendered.

John Von Neurmann- Wrote a paper about the next step to computers. Described each part of the computer and what it would look like. He was known for having a photographic memory.

IBM- come out with the PC's in the early 1980's.

Kilby & Noyce-Came up with an entire system transistors on one small chip.

Tedd Hoff- Made the microprocessor, which is programed just like a computer.

Douglas Engelbart- He invented the computer mouse.

Xerox- A photocopying machine.

Steve Wozniak & Steve Jobs- Manufactured computers call the apple one in a garage. Jobs was a drop out from college but was still smart. And Wozniak was an engineer. They created the first mini computer kit.

Bill Gates- President of Microsoft, which soon became a very popular software. He is now the richest man in the world.

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