The Computer Book
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The Computer Book

From the Abacus to Artificial Intelligence, 250 Milestones in the History of Computer Science

Simson L Garfinkel, Rachel H. Grunspan

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The Computer Book

From the Abacus to Artificial Intelligence, 250 Milestones in the History of Computer Science

Simson L Garfinkel, Rachel H. Grunspan

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Part of Sterling's extremely popular Milestones series, this illustrated exploration of computer science ranges from the ancient abacus to superintelligence and social media. With 250 illustrated landmark inventions, publications, and eventsā€”encompassing everything from ancient record-keeping devices to the latest computing technologiesā€”this highly topical addition to the Sterling Milestones series takes a chronological journey through the history and future of computer science. Two expert authors, with decades' of experience working in computer research and innovation, explore topics including the Sumerian abacus, the first spam message, Morse code, cryptography, early computers, Isaac Asimov's laws of robotics, UNIX and early programming languages, movies, video games, mainframes, minis and micros, hacking, virtual reality, and more.

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Publisher
Union Square & Co.
Year
2019
ISBN
9781454926221
Topic
Histoire
Subtopic
Histoire des sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. c. 2500 BCE Sumerian Abacus
  8. c. 700 BCE Scytale
  9. c. 150 BCE Antikythera Mechanism
  10. c. 60 Programmable Robot
  11. c. 850 On Deciphering Cryptographic Messages
  12. c. 1470 Cipher Disk
  13. 1613 First Recorded Use of the Word Computer
  14. 1621 Slide Rule
  15. 1703 Binary Arithmetic
  16. 1758 Human Computers Predict Halleyā€™s Comet
  17. 1770 The ā€œMechanical Turkā€
  18. 1792 Optical Telegraph
  19. 1801 The Jacquard Loom
  20. 1822 The Difference Engine
  21. 1836 Electrical Telegraph
  22. 1843 Ada Lovelace Writes a Computer Program
  23. 1843 Fax Machine Patented
  24. 1843 Edgar Allan Poeā€™s ā€œThe Gold-Bugā€
  25. 1851 Thomas Arithmometer
  26. 1854 Boolean Algebra
  27. 1864 First Electromagnetic Spam Message
  28. 1874 Baudot Code
  29. 1874 Semiconductor Diode
  30. 1890 Tabulating the US Census
  31. 1891 Strowger Step-by-Step Switch
  32. 1914 Floating-Point Numbers
  33. 1917 Vernam Cipher
  34. 1920 Rossumā€™s Universal Robots
  35. 1927 Metropolis
  36. 1927 First LED
  37. 1928 Electronic Speech Synthesis
  38. 1931 Differential Analyzer
  39. 1936 Church-Turing Thesis
  40. 1941 Z3 Computer
  41. 1942 Atanasoff-Berry Computer
  42. 1942 Isaac Asimovā€™s Three Laws of Robotics
  43. 1943 ENIAC
  44. 1943 Colossus
  45. 1944 Delay Line Memory
  46. 1944 Binary-Coded Decimal
  47. 1945 ā€œAs We May Thinkā€
  48. 1945 EDVAC First Draft Report
  49. 1946 Trackball
  50. 1946 Williams Tube
  51. 1947 Actual Bug Found
  52. 1947 Silicon Transistor
  53. 1948 The Bit
  54. 1948 Curta Calculator
  55. 1948 Manchester SSEM
  56. 1949 Whirlwind
  57. 1950 Error-Correcting Codes
  58. 1951 The Turing Test
  59. 1951 Magnetic Tape Used for Computers
  60. 1951 Core Memory
  61. 1951 Microprogramming
  62. 1952 Computer Speech Recognition
  63. 1953 First Transistorized Computer
  64. 1955 Artificial Intelligence Coined
  65. 1955 Computer Proves Mathematical Theorem
  66. 1956 First Disk Storage Unit
  67. 1956 The Byte
  68. 1956 Robby the Robot
  69. 1957 FORTRAN
  70. 1957 First Digital Image
  71. 1958 The Bell 101 Modem
  72. 1958 SAGE Computer Operational
  73. 1959 IBM 1401
  74. 1959 PDP-1
  75. 1959 Quicksort
  76. 1959 Airline Reservation System
  77. 1960 COBOL Computer Language
  78. 1960 Recommended Standard 232
  79. 1961 ANITA Electronic Calculator
  80. 1961 Unimate: First Mass-Produced Robot
  81. 1961 Time-Sharing
  82. 1962 Spacewar!
  83. 1962 Virtual Memory
  84. 1962 Digital Long Distance
  85. 1963 Sketchpad
  86. 1963 ASCII
  87. 1964 RAND Tablet
  88. 1964 Teletype Model 33 ASR
  89. 1964 IBM System/360
  90. 1964 BASIC Computer Language
  91. 1965 First Liquid-Crystal Display
  92. 1965 Fiber Optics
  93. 1965 DENDRAL
  94. 1965 ELIZA
  95. 1965 Touchscreen
  96. 1966 Star Trek Premieres
  97. 1966 Dynamic RAM
  98. 1967 Object-Oriented Programming
  99. 1967 First Cash Machine
  100. 1967 Head-Mounted Display
  101. 1967 Programming for Children
  102. 1967 The Mouse
  103. 1968 Carterfone Decision
  104. 1968 Software Engineering
  105. 1968 HAL 9000 Computer
  106. 1968 First Spacecraft Guided by Computer
  107. 1968 Cyberspace Coinedā€”and Re-Coined
  108. 1968 Mother of All Demos
  109. 1968 Dot Matrix Printer
  110. 1968 Interface Message Processor (IMP)
  111. 1969 ARPANET/Internet
  112. 1969 Digital Imaging
  113. 1969 Network Working Group Request for Comments: 1
  114. 1969 Utility Computing
  115. 1969 Perceptrons
  116. 1969 UNIX
  117. 1970 Fair Credit Reporting Act
  118. 1970 Relational Database
  119. 1970 Floppy Disk
  120. 1971 Laser Printer
  121. 1971 NP-Completeness
  122. 1971 @Mail
  123. 1971 First Microprocessor
  124. 1971 First Wireless Network
  125. 1972 C Programming Language
  126. 1972 Cray Research
  127. 1972 Game of Life
  128. 1972 HP-35 Calculator
  129. 1972 Pong
  130. 1973 First Cell Phone Call
  131. 1973 Xerox Alto
  132. 1974 Data Encryption Standard
  133. 1974 First Personal Computer
  134. 1975 Adventure
  135. 1975 The Shockwave Rider
  136. 1975 AI Medical Diagnosis
  137. 1975 BYTE Magazine
  138. 1975 Homebrew Computer Club
  139. 1975 The Mythical Man-Month
  140. 1976 Public Key Cryptography
  141. 1976 Tandem NonStop
  142. 1976 Dr. Dobbā€™s Journal
  143. 1977 RSA Encryption
  144. 1977 Apple II
  145. 1978 First Internet Spam Message
  146. 1978 Minitel
  147. 1979 Secret Sharing
  148. 1979 VisiCalc
  149. 1980 Sinclair ZX80
  150. 1980 Flash Memory
  151. 1980 RISC
  152. 1980 Commercially Available Ethernet
  153. 1980 Usenet
  154. 1981 IBM PC
  155. 1981 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
  156. 1981 Japanā€™s Fifth Generation Computer Systems
  157. 1982 AutoCAD
  158. 1982 First Commercial UNIX Workstation
  159. 1982 PostScript
  160. 1982 Microsoft and the Clones
  161. 1982 First CGI Sequence in Feature Film
  162. 1982 National Geographic Moves the Pyramids
  163. 1982 Secure Multi-Party Computation
  164. 1982 TRON
  165. 1982 Home Computer Named Machine of the Year
  166. 1983 The Qubit
  167. 1983 WarGames
  168. 1983 3-D Printing
  169. 1983 Computerization of the Local Telephone Network
  170. 1983 First Laptop
  171. 1983 MIDI Computer Music Interface
  172. 1983 Microsoft Word
  173. 1983 Nintendo Entertainment System
  174. 1983 Domain Name System
  175. 1983 IPv4 Flag Day
  176. 1984 Text-to-Speech
  177. 1984 Macintosh
  178. 1984 VPL Research, Inc.
  179. 1984 Quantum Cryptography
  180. 1984 Telebit Modems Break 9600 bps
  181. 1984 Verilog
  182. 1985 Connection Machine
  183. 1985 First Computer-Generated TV Host
  184. 1985 Zero-Knowledge Proofs
  185. 1985 FCC Approves Unlicensed Spread Spectrum
  186. 1985 NSFNET
  187. 1985 Desktop Publishing
  188. 1985 Field-Programmable Gate Array
  189. 1985 GNU Manifesto
  190. 1985 AFIS Stops a Serial Killer
  191. 1986 Software Bug Fatalities
  192. 1986 Pixar
  193. 1987 Digital Video Editing
  194. 1987 GIF
  195. 1988 MPEG
  196. 1988 CD-ROM
  197. 1988 Morris Worm
  198. 1989 World Wide Web
  199. 1989 SimCity
  200. 1989 ISP Provides Internet Access to the Public
  201. 1990 GPS Is Operational
  202. 1990 Digital Money
  203. 1991 Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)
  204. 1991 Computers at Risk
  205. 1991 Linux Kernel
  206. 1992 Boston Dynamics Founded
  207. 1992 JPEG
  208. 1992 First Mass-Market Web Browser
  209. 1992 Unicode
  210. 1993 Apple Newton
  211. 1994 First Banner Ad
  212. 1994 RSA-129 Cracked
  213. 1995 DVD
  214. 1995 E-Commerce
  215. 1995 AltaVista Web Search Engine
  216. 1995 Gartner Hype Cycle
  217. 1996 Universal Serial Bus (USB)
  218. 1997 Computer Is World Chess Champion
  219. 1997 PalmPilot
  220. 1997 E Ink
  221. 1998 Diamond Rio MP3 Player
  222. 1998 Google
  223. 1999 Collaborative Software Development
  224. 1999 Blog Is Coined
  225. 1999 Napster
  226. 2000 USB Flash Drive
  227. 2001 Wikipedia
  228. 2001 iTunes
  229. 2001 Advanced Encryption Standard
  230. 2001 Quantum Computer Factors ā€œ15ā€
  231. 2002 Home-Cleaning Robot
  232. 2003 CAPTCHA
  233. 2004 Product Tracking
  234. 2004 Facebook
  235. 2004 First International Meeting on Synthetic Biology
  236. 2005 Video Game Enables Research into Real-World Pandemics
  237. 2006 Hadoop Makes Big Data Possible
  238. 2006 Differential Privacy
  239. 2007 iPhone
  240. 2008 Bitcoin
  241. 2010 Air Force Builds Supercomputer with Gaming Consoles
  242. 2010 Cyber Weapons
  243. 2011 Smart Homes
  244. 2011 Watson Wins Jeopardy!
  245. 2011 World IPv6 Day
  246. 2011 Social Media Enables the Arab Spring
  247. 2012 DNA Data Storage
  248. 2013 Algorithm Influences Prison Sentence
  249. 2013 Subscription Software
  250. 2014 Data Breaches
  251. 2014 Over-the-Air Vehicle Software Updates
  252. 2015 Google Releases TensorFlow
  253. 2016 Augmented Reality Goes Mainstream
  254. 2016 Computer Beats Master at Go
  255. ~2050 Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
  256. ~9999 The Limits of Computation?
  257. Notes and Further Reading
  258. Photo Credits