Digital Humanities 2144A/B Lecture Notes - Joseph Marie Jacquard, Jacquard Loom, Arithmetic Logic Unit
4 Mar 2020
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19th century: joseph marie jacquard (1752-1834, french silk weaver and inventor. International business machines: alan turing (1912-1954, british computer scientists and mathematician who became well known for his cryptologic methods during wwii. Matic or flow-matic: was a consultant to the committee that defined cobol an english based programming language for business use still used today, computer bug came from her because while working on harvard"s mark. Ii computer her staff discovered that a moth has gotten stuck on one of the computers switches and was interfering with its operation: moth was removed or debugged and the problem was solved. Embedded computers: embedded computer is a computer inside another electrical device like a tv, car, printer, thermostat, satellite, computers exists in nearly anything electrical today global shipment of microcontrollers are increasing. History of information systems: information system most frequently associated with technologies that perform automatic computations, 1964 blaise pascal invented a mechanical calculator called the pascaline.
