History of Computing Schedule (Provisional)

Week
Lecture 1
Lecture 1
Tutorial
1
Overview / Intro
Anecdotes, Chronology
What are we trying to achieve?
What is truth?
Slippery Facts
U.S. & U.K. Perspectives
Resource Gathering
Critical Analysis
2
Early Maths
Tallying, Counting
Number Systems,
Leibniz Calculation
Egyptian Calculation
3
Babbage's Difference Engine
Role of Ada Lovelace
Tables
Babbage's Difference Engine
Role of Ada Lovelace
Tables
Charles Babbage
4
Punched Card Machines
Hollerith & Census
I.B.M. ,  RAND & 
Office Machinery
Punched Card 
Machines
5
Aiken & Harvard Mark 1
Grace Hopper
I.B.M.
Relay Calculations
Howard Aiken
6
Atanasoff/Berry Computer
Mauchley, Eckert & ENIAC
Von Neumann
Electronic Calculators
7
Max Newman
Alan Turing 
Colossus
Electronic Calculation
The dawn of modern Compters
Wartime 
Cryptanalysis
8

Early Stored-Program computers - SSEM

Turing's Babies.....
Pilot Ace, Ace
Bendix, Mosaic
Alan Turing
9
Guest Lecturer 
T.B.A.
Guest Lecturer 
T.B.A.
Guest Lecturer 
T.B.A.
10
EDSAC , Elliot,
LEO & Commercial Uses
Whirlwind
11
Revision  / Field Trip
Revision  / Field Trip
Revision  / Field Trip