https://padlet.com/28amedua/aggpnjh8q49yreev en-us 2023-01-24 14:36:25 UTC 2023-01-24 22:08:14 UTC hello@padlet.com 28amedua https://padlet.com/28amedua/aggpnjh8q49yreev/wish/2454939830 In 1939, Bell Telephone Laboratories completes this calculator, designed by scientist George Stibitz]]> 2023-01-24 16:22:55 UTC https://padlet.com/28amedua/aggpnjh8q49yreev/wish/2454939830 28amedua https://padlet.com/28amedua/aggpnjh8q49yreev/wish/2454947667 The Z3, an early computer built by German engineer Konrad Zuse working in complete isolation from developments elsewhere, uses 2,300 relays, performs floating point binary arithmetic, and has a 22-bit word length.]]> 2023-01-24 16:27:31 UTC https://padlet.com/28amedua/aggpnjh8q49yreev/wish/2454947667 28amedua https://padlet.com/28amedua/aggpnjh8q49yreev/wish/2455366974 After successfully demonstrating a proof-of-concept prototype in 1939, Professor John Vincent Atanasoff receives funds to build a full-scale machine at Iowa State College (now University).]]> 2023-01-24 21:16:57 UTC https://padlet.com/28amedua/aggpnjh8q49yreev/wish/2455366974 28amedua https://padlet.com/28amedua/aggpnjh8q49yreev/wish/2455373238 Two scientists, Warren S. McCulloch and Walter H. Pitts, publish the groundbreaking paper A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity.]]> 2023-01-24 21:24:15 UTC https://padlet.com/28amedua/aggpnjh8q49yreev/wish/2455373238 28amedua https://padlet.com/28amedua/aggpnjh8q49yreev/wish/2455378505 Designed by British engineer Tommy Flowers, the Colossus is designed to break the complex Lorenz ciphers used by the Nazis during World War II.]]> 2023-01-24 21:30:23 UTC https://padlet.com/28amedua/aggpnjh8q49yreev/wish/2455378505 28amedua https://padlet.com/28amedua/aggpnjh8q49yreev/wish/2455387116 In a widely circulated paper, mathematician John von Neumann outlines the architecture of a stored-program computer, including electronic storage of programming information and data -- which eliminates the need for more clumsy methods of programming such as plugboards, punched cards and paper.]]> 2023-01-24 21:41:40 UTC https://padlet.com/28amedua/aggpnjh8q49yreev/wish/2455387116 28amedua https://padlet.com/28amedua/aggpnjh8q49yreev/wish/2455390173 In the March 1946 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, Jenkins publishes A Logic Named Joe, a short story detailing a world where computers, called Logics, were interconnected into a massive, worldwide network.]]> 2023-01-24 21:45:15 UTC https://padlet.com/28amedua/aggpnjh8q49yreev/wish/2455390173 28amedua https://padlet.com/28amedua/aggpnjh8q49yreev/wish/2455398456 At Manchester University, Freddie Williams and Tom Kilburn develop the Williams-Kilburn tube. The tube, tested in 1947, was the first high-speed, entirely electronic memory.]]> 2023-01-24 21:55:30 UTC https://padlet.com/28amedua/aggpnjh8q49yreev/wish/2455398456 28amedua https://padlet.com/28amedua/aggpnjh8q49yreev/wish/2455404430 Norbert Wiener publishes the book Cybernetics, which has a major influence on research into artificial intelligence and control systems.]]> 2023-01-24 22:03:42 UTC https://padlet.com/28amedua/aggpnjh8q49yreev/wish/2455404430 28amedua https://padlet.com/28amedua/aggpnjh8q49yreev/wish/2455407334 Computers “talk” over ordinary voice phone lines through modems. Developed in 1949 for transmitting radar signals by Jack Harrington’s group at the Air Force Cambridge Research Center (AFCRC) near Boston, the modem modulates digital data into sounds, and demodulates received sounds into digital data.]]> 2023-01-24 22:08:14 UTC https://padlet.com/28amedua/aggpnjh8q49yreev/wish/2455407334