A Brief set of pointers to Computing History

Created by CS110 students

People

• Augusta Ada Byron
• Alan Turing
• Bill Gates
• Blaise Pascal
• Charles Babbage
• Grace Murray Hopper
• Herman Hollerith
• Howard Aiken
• John Mauchly
• John Vincent Atanasoff
• John von Neumann
• Joseph Jacquard
• Konrad Zuse
• Presper Eckert
• Steven Jobs
• Vannevar Bush
• Steven Wosniak
• Alan Kay
• Doug Engelbart
• Ted Nelson
• Bill Atkinson
• Danny Goodman

Languages

• Basic
• Cobol
• Fortran
• Pascal
• Lisp
• Java
• KidSim
• HyperTalk

Objects

• Analytical Engine
• Colossus
• Difference Engine
• Digital Equipment Co. PDP-1
• ENIAC
• Enigma
• integrated circuits
• Mark I
• transistors
• UNIVAC I
• vacuum tubes
• VLSI
• MBytes (megabytes)
• IBM PC Junior
• Apple Lisa
• Apple Macintosh 128K
• robot
• IBM 360
• As we may think