This document provides an overview of the history of computing from ancient counting devices like the abacus to modern computers. It discusses key developments like Babbage's analytical engine in the 1800s, the first general purpose electronic computers like ENIAC in the 1940s, the development of programming languages like COBOL and BASIC in the 1950s-60s, the rise of personal computers with the Apple II and IBM PC in the 1970s-80s, and the creation of the internet and world wide web in the 1980s-90s. The document also covers modern applications and types of computers from personal computers to supercomputers.

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Introduction to Computer Science
(I)
Introduction

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Information Technology in Our
Lives
• Digital Convergence
– Converting whatever we can in the physical and
communications world to binary on/off signals,
called bits
• Text
• Voice
• Picture
• Movie

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• At Home
– Email, Internet shopping, virtual museum,
banking transactions, news
– Small computers in VCRs, automobiles, air-
conditioning systems, washing machines,

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• At Play
– Group chatting, games, songs and movies from
Internet

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• At Work
– Mobile worker
– Office software, Database, ERP, SCM, CRM

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• At School or College
– Computer-based courses, distance learning

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The History of Computing
• 3000 B.C.: The Abacus
– The original mechanical counting device
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• 1623-1662: Blaise Pascal
– French mathematician and philosopher
– Built the Pascaline in 1642
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• 1642: The Pascaline
– A counting-wheel design
• A single revolution of one wheel would engage
gears that turned the wheel one tenth of a revolution
to its immediate left
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• 1801: Jacquard’s loom
– Frenchman Joseph-Marie Jacquard (1753-1871)
– Weaving loom
– The first significant use of binary automation
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– Jacquard Loom Salesman’s Model
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• 1793-1871: Charles Babbage
– Envisioned a steam-powered difference engine
and then an analytical engine
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• 1842: Bassage’s Difference Engine and the
Analytical Engine
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• Diagram Showing Method
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• 1816-1852: Lady Ada Augusta Lovelace
– Punched cards could be prepared to instruct
Babbage’s engine to repeat certain operations
– The first programmer
Source: http://archive.computerhistory.org/

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• 1860-1929: Herman Hollerith
– Devised a punched-card tabulating machine to
speed up the 1890 U.S. census
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• 1890: Hollerith’s Tabulating Machine
– Used a hand punch to enter data onto cards
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– A Pantograph Punch
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• 1874-1956: Thomas Watson, Sr.
– In 1896 Herman Hollerith founded the Tabulating Machine
Company, which merged in 1911 with several other company to
form the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company. It was
renamed the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)
by company president Thomas J. Watson in 1924.
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• 1920s-1950s: The Electro-Mechanical
Accounting Machine Era
– Punched-card technology
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• Punched Card Office
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• 1903-1995: Dr. John V. Atanasoff and His
ABC (Atanasoff Berry Computer)
Source: http://archive.computerhistory.org/

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• 1942: The First Elecronic Digital Computer:
The ABC
Source: http://archive.computerhistory.org/

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• 1946: The Electronic ENIAC Computer
– Dr. John W. Mauchly (middle) collaborated with J.
Presper Ecjert, Jr. (foreground) at the University of
Pennsylvania to develop a machine that would compute
trajectory tables for the U.S. Army.
– Used vacuum tubes
– ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)
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• 1951: The UNIVAC I and the First
Generation of Computers
– Used vacuum tubes in the first generation of computers
(1951-1959)
– The Universal Automatic Computer (UNIVAC I) was
developed by Mauchly and Eckert for the Remington-
Rand Corporation
– The first commercially viable electronic digital
computer
Source: http://archive.computerhistory.org/

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• 1954: The IBM 650
– IBM’s first entry into the commercial computer market
was the IBM 701 in 1953
– IBM 650, introduced in 1954, was designed as a logical
upgrade to existing punched-card machines
Source: http://archive.computerhistory.org/

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• 1907-1992: “Amazing” Grace Murray
Hopper
– In 1959, Dr. Hopper led an effort that laid the
foundation for the development of COBOL
– Found the first “bug” in a computer—a real one. She
repaired the Mark II by removing a moth that was
caught in Relay Number II.
Source: http://archive.computerhistory.org/

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• 1958: The First Integrated Circuit
– The first integrated circuit, a phase-shift oscillator, was
invented in 1958 by Jack S. Kilby of Texas Instruments.
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• 1963: The PDP-8 Minicomputer
– In 1963 Digital Equipment Corporation introduced the
PDP-8
– The first successful minicomputer
Source: http://archive.computerhistory.org/

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• 1964: The IBM System/360 and the Third
Generation of Computers
– The third generation was characterized by computers
built around integrated circuits
– A family of computers with upward compatibility;
when a company outgrew one model it could move up
to the next model without worrying about converting its
data
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• 1964: BASIC-More Than a Beginner’s
Programming Language
– Dr. Thomas Kurtz and Dr. John Kemeny of Dartmouth
College developed a programming language that a
beginner could learn and use quickly
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• 1969: ARPANET and the Unbundling of
Hardware and Software
– A U.S. Department of Defense’s Advanced
Research Project Agency (ARPA)
sponsorship of a project, named ARPANET,
was underway to unite a community of
geographically dispersed scientists by
technology
– When IBM unbundled and sold software
separately, the software industry began to
flourish
Source: http://archive.computerhistory.org/

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• 1975: Microsoft and Bill Gates
– Bill gates and Paul Allen formed Microsoft Corporation,
now the largest and most influential software company
in the world
Source: http://archive.computerhistory.org/

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• 1976: The Apple I
– Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, along with Ronald G.
Wayne formed the Apple Computer Company
Source: http://apple.computerhistory.org/stories

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• 1981: The IBM PC
– IBM tossed its hat into the personal computer ring with
its announcement of the IBM Personal Computer
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• 1982: Mitchell Kapor Designs Lotus 1-2-3
– In 1982, Kapor founded Lotus Development Company.
Kapor and the company introduced an electronic
spread-sheet product, Lotus 1-2-3
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• 1984: The Macintosh and Graphical User
Interfaces
– Apple Computer introduced the Macintosh desktop
computer with a very friendly graphical user interface
Source: http://archive.computerhistory.org/

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• 1985-Present: Microsoft Windows
– Microsoft introduced Windows, a GUI for IBM PC-
compatible computers in 1985
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• 1989: The World Wide Web
– Berners-Lee and a small team of scientists conceived
HTML (the language of the Internet), URLs (Internet
addresses), and put up the first server supporting the
neq World Wide Web format
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• 1993: The Internet Browser
– The development in 1993 of the graphical browser Mosaic by
Marc Andreesen and his team at the National Center For
Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) made the web accessible
to everyone.
– Marc Andreesen and entrepreneur Jim Clark founded Netscape
in 1994 to create a web browser based on the Mosaic project.
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• 1996: The Handheld Computer
– The PalmPilot handheld computer was introduced by
Palm Computing, Inc.
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Problem Transformation into
Calculations
• Many real problems can be transformed into
calculations. Then, these calculations can
be conducted in computers.
– Examples: Image processing, optimization,
ciphering and deciphering, simulations in
dynamic systems

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Personal Computers to
Supercomputers
• Personal Computer (PC)
– Desktop PC

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– Notebook PC

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– Tablet PC

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– Wearable PC
Source: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/publicfeature/oct00/wear.html

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• Handheld Computer

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• Workstation
– To visualize and solve complex, technical
problems.

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• Server Computers
– Applications in business financial, customer
management solutions, decision support data
warehouse, e-commerce, and enterprise
resource planning

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• Supercomputer
– In a six-game match, a chess-playing IBM computer
known as Deep Blue defeats chess grandmaster Garry
Kasparov - the first time a reigning world champion
loses a match to a computer opponent in tournament
play. Deep Blue is an IBM RS/6000 SP supercomputer
capable of calculating 200 million chess positions per
second.
Source: http://www-1.ibm.com/ibm/history/history/year_1997.html

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Information Systems
• Data processing systems
– Transaction handling, record keeping
– Primarily for clerical personnel and
operational-level managers
Source: http://www.lockheedmartin.com

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• Management information system
– Uses an integrated database and supports a
variety of functional areas
– Structured information (for example, a weekly
inventory status report with predefined content
and format)
– Applications in hospitals (patient accounting,
point-of-care processing), insurance (claims-
processing systems, policy administration,
actuarial statistics), and colleges (student
registration, placement)

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• Decision support system
– Helps the decision makers, especially those at
the tactical and strategic levels, in the decision-
making process
– Interactive system
Source: http://cdss.state.co.us

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• Executive information system
– Subset of DSS
– Supports decision making at the executive
levels of management, primarily the tactical
and strategic levels
Source: http://www.tzuchi.com.tw/medinfo99/3-3-41.htm

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• Artificial intelligence
– Expert systems, simulation of human sensory
capabilities, neural networks, intelligent agents,
robots and robotics
Source: http://asimo.honda.com/index.asp

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• Virtual reality
– Combines computer graphics with special
hardware to immerse users in an artificial three-
dimensional world
Source: http://human-factors.arc.nasa.gov

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References
• A Short History of Computing
– Tim Bergin, Computing History Museum American University,
http://www.computinghistorymuseum.org/
• Computer History Museum
– http://www.computerhistory.org
• Computers
– Larry Long & Nancy Long, Twelfth Edition, Pearson Education,
Inc.
• http://archive.computerhistory.org/