CSNT/100 & ITAD/100History of 21st Century Computing

Week 2

2001 Computing History

What Who Category Description

File Compression Igor Pavlov Algorithms Lempel-Ziv-Markov

chain Compression

Face Recognition

Paul ViolaMichael Jones Algorithms

Real-time object detection framework for face recognition

Agile Software Development Agile Alliance

Software Development Mentodology

Valuing: individuals, interactions > code & processes; working SW > documents; + customer collab.; quick changes response.

Mac OS X, Windows XP

Apple, Microsoft

Operating Systems

Initial version of BSD Unix based Graphical Operating System; Rewritten OS based on Windows NT Kernel

2002-2005 Computing History

What Who Category Description

Blackberry Introduced RIM (Canada) Smart Phone

Supports push Email, phone calling, texting, faxing and web browsing

Roomba Introduced iRobot Robotics

Roomba autonomously vacuums the floor while navigating and avoiding obstacles.

Binary Prefixes Standard Issued

(2004)IEEE Std 260.1

Units of Measurement Specifications

Definitions for KiB, MiB, GiB etc, reserving the symbols kB, MB, GB etc for their decimal counterparts. 1 kiB = 1000 = 10^3 Bytes; 1 KB = 1024 = 2^10 Bytes

Recommender Systems (2005) Amazon, eBay “Big Data”

Tracking web activity or media usage to bring AI to marketing

2007 Computer HistoryWhat Who Category Description

iPhone Apple Smart Phone; Mobile OS

First iOS, (multi-)touch sensitive, hi-res camera, music player, app based phone

Checkers is Solved

Jonathan Schaeffer Artificial Intelligence

Perfect play for each player leads to a draw

Dropbox is founded Arash Ferdowsi Cloud Computing Off-site storage, backup

and large file transfer

Hulu is founded Disney&ABC, Fox, NBC Streaming Video

U.S. based; On demand streaming to screen devices; Worldwide TV Series access

Scratch is Released Mitchel Resnick Programming

LanguageFocused on (Child) Education

Kindle eReader is released Amazon eReader Device Handheld reader, audio-

video and game device

2008-2010 Computer History

What Who Category Description

Chrome is released Google Web Browser Currently most

popular worldwideAndroid is

released Google Mobile OSBased on Linux Kernel; largest installed base worldwide

Self-Driving Car (2009) Google AI & Machine

LearningFrom driver assisted to fully automated

Bitcoin is released (2009)

“Satoshi Nakamoto”

OnlineCurrency

Crypto-currency and payment system

iPad is Released (2010) Apple Tablet

ComputerEnlarged iPhone (Both use iOS)

2011-2016 Computer History

What Who Category Description

Raspberry Pi is Released

Raspberry Pi Foundation Computers

Created to teach Computer Science; adapted to Robotics

Edward Snowden & Global Surveillance Disclosures (2013)

Edward Snowden; NSA Cryptography

Opened huge issue of National Security vs Information Privacy

Quantum Computer is

Released (2016)MIT Computers

5 atom quantum (qubits); could crack traditional security encryption schemes