3. 1801 Joseph Jacquard
Invented the Jacquard Loom, an attachment
for powered fabric looms. It uses a chain of
punch cards to instruct the loom on how to
make intricate textiles.
The Jacquard Loom is important to the history
of computers because it is the first machine to
use interchangeable punch cards to instruct a
machine to perform automated tasks.
5. 1822 Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage first came up with the idea
of a mechanical computer after seeing how
numerical tables calculated by humans
(called computers) had a high-degree of
error. He decided that by creating a device
for doing the same job, the errors could be
eliminated. The difference engine was born:
a machine capable of calculating the values
of polynomial functions automatically. Sadly,
although funding was in place, the
difference engine was never completed.
6. 1822 Charles Babbage
Not deterred, Babbage turned his hand to
the Difference Engine No. 2, an improve
calculating machine, and the Analytical
Engine, which was the first programmable
computer in existence. He even drew up
plans for the first printer. Babbage died
before any of his designs could be built, but
his influence should not be underestimated
and his designs inspired other people to
work on computers.
8. 1842 Ada Lovelace
Known for her work on Charles Babbage's
proposed mechanical general-purpose
computer, the Analytical Engine. She was
the first to recognise that the machine had
applications beyond pure calculation, and
published the first algorithm intended to
be carried out by such a machine.
10. 1930s-40s Alan Turning
• Turning Machine
• Father of theoretical computer science and AI
• Developed a machine that help break Enigma
• Turing Test
12. 1941 Konrad Zuse
His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable
computer; the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3
became operational in May 1941. Thanks to this machine and its
predecessors, Zuse has often been regarded as the inventor of the
modern computer. First high level language – developed not
implemented
16. 1959 Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce
Independently of one another, in 1959 Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce
showed that many transistors, resistors, and capacitors could be
grouped on a single board of semiconductor material. The integrated
circuit, or microchip, came to be a vital component in computers and
other electronic equipment.
18. 1964 Douglas Engelbart
He created the mouse (then a wooden shell
with two metal wheels in it), still the de facto
way that we interact with computers today. He
and his team also created bit-mapped screens,
hypertext and some precursors to the
graphical user interface (GUI).
The research started here allowed Xerox to
continue development and come up with the
basis of the windowed-operating system that
we all use today.
20. 1964 Douglas Engelbart
He created the mouse (then a wooden shell with two metal wheels in
it), still the de facto way that we interact with computers today. He and
his team also created bit-mapped screens, hypertext and some
precursors to the graphical user interface (GUI).
22. 1969 Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn
Scientists Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf developed Transmission Control
Protocol and Internet Protocol, or TCP/IP, a communications model that
set standards for how data could be transmitted between multiple
networks. They are considered the fathers of the internet.
28. 1975, 1982 Jay Miner
Jay Glenn Miner was an American integrated circuit
designer, known primarily for developing
multimedia chips for the Atari 2600 and Atari 8-bit
family and as the "father of the Amiga". So he
designed architecture of the first successful game
console and the first modern multitasking
multimedia computer.
30. 1977 Stephen Gary Wozniak and Steve Jobs
Developed the Apple II. The Apple II is an 8-bit home computer and
one of the world's first highly successful mass-produced
microcomputer products.
32. 1983 Sophie Wilson
She first began designing the ARM
reduced instruction set computer (RISC) in
1983, which entered production two years
later. ARM processors are in basically
pretty much any computing device that
isn’t a PC and lately some PCs too.
34. 1989 Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy John Berners is an English
computer scientist best known as the inventor
of the World Wide Web. Berners-Lee
proposed an information management then
implemented the first successful
communication between a Hypertext Transfer
Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the
Internet in mid-November.