Evolution of a computer 2

Evolution of a

Computer

Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)

• Designed in 1937 by John V. Atanasoff and Clifford Berry, it is the world’s first electronic digital computer.

Z3• Secretly developed in 1941 by the German

engineer Konrad Zuse. It was use to design airplanes and missiles.

Colossus• Designed in 1943 by British scientist Alan

Turing. It was used to decode German messages.

Harvard-IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator or Mark I• Developed in 1944 by Howard H. Aiken, this is

used by the US Navy.

Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC)

• Designed in 1945 by John Presper Eckert Jr. and John Mauchly, it is used by the U.S. Army.

Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer (EDVAC)• Designed in 1945 by John von Neumann, it

had a memory that could hold both data and a stored program.

Universal Automatic Computer I (UNIVAC I)

• Built in 1951 by Remington Rand and the first commercial computer to feature a magnetic tape storage system.

Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE)

• Established in 1954, this automated aircraft-warning system has the largest vacuum tube computer system ever built.

Transistors

PDP-8

GUI

Dr. Ted Hoff and the Microprocessor

Apple II

Microsoft’s Windows

Deep Blue

The Future of

Computer

•Ballistic Deflection Transistors (BDTs)•Virtual Reality•Artificial Intelligence

ASIMO

What Asimo can do?