History of Computing Schedule (Provisional) |
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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 |
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11 |
Revision / Field Trip |
Revision / Field Trip |
Revision / Field Trip |