Sources a Brief History of Computer Science ●Schneider and Gersting, an Invitation to Computer Science ●Primary Source CSCE 181, Yoonsuck Choe ●Slides from Prof

Sources a Brief History of Computer Science ●Schneider and Gersting, an Invitation to Computer Science ●Primary Source CSCE 181, Yoonsuck Choe ●Slides from Prof

* Sources A Brief History of Computer Science ●Schneider and Gersting, An Invitation to Computer Science ●primary source CSCE 181, Yoonsuck Choe ●Slides from Prof. John Keyser Slides with dark blue background header: Prof. Jennifer Welch’s slides ●American University’s Computing History Museum • ●http://www.computinghistorymuseum.org/ from Spring 2010 CSCE 181. ●Virginia Tech’s History of Computing website: ●http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history Slides with blank background: Yoonsuck Choe • ●Computer History Museum ●http://www.computerhistory.org/ ●IEEE Annals of the History of Computing (Journal) ●http://www.computer.org/portal/site/annals/index.jsp ●Andrew Hodges’ website about Alan Turing ●http://http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/index.html * More Sources Early Mathematics & Computation ●Babylonians and Egyptians, > 3000 yrs ago James Burke, Connections, MacMillan: London, 1978. • ●numerical methods for generating tables of square Photos taken by Yoonsuck Choe at the Computer History roots, multiplication, trig • ●Applications: navigation, agriculture, taxation Museum in Mountainview, CA. December 2011. ●Greeks, > 3000 yrs ago ●geometry and logic ●Indians, ~ 600 AD ●started using placeholders and a decimal number system, similar to modern ●idea spread to Middle East ●Arabs and Persians ~ 800 AD ●algorithms * * A Famous Arab Mathematician Abu Jafar Mohammed Ibn Musa Al-Khowarizmi Early Computing Devices ●In early 800s AD ●Abacus ●Worked at center of learning in Baghdad ●About 3000 BC ●Wrote book: Hisab Al Jabr Wal- ●Different types, developed over time Mugabalah ●Common wire/bead: about 500 BC fig from http://www.ee.ryerson. ●Described how to compute several practical ●Some still in use today ca/~elf/abacus problems, including linear and quadratic ●John Napier’s Bones equations ●1617: Sticks with numbers on them ●Translated into Latin, spread throughout ●Use to do 4 basic arithmetic operations Europe ●William Oughtred’s Slide Rule ●Solidified number system in use now: ●1622: Sticks with logarithmic scale, slide along “Arabic numerals” ●Much more complex calculations th ●Al Jabr gives us the word “algebra” ●Used well into 20 century (replaced by handheld calculator) ●Al-Khowarizmi gives us the word “algorithm” fig. from Donald Knuth's website * * More Early Computing Devices ●Blaise Pascal Are These Devices Computers? ●1642: First numerical calculating machine (addition and subtraction) ●Gottfried Leibniz ●Not considered general-purpose computers ●1673: 4-function mechanical ● They lack calculator (addition, subtractions, multiplication, division) ●memory ●ability to be programmed fig from http://www.tcf.ua. ●Used cogs and gears edu/AZ/ITHistoryOutline.htm ●Showed mechanization can simplify and speed up numerical calculations * * First Programmable Device with Jacquard Loom Memory ●A loom! ●Used to weave cloth with patterns ●Memory: the cards ●Invented by Joseph Jacquard, ●Programmable: change the cards France, 1804 ●Capture human expertise in a ●Automated loom using punched machine cards to create pattern ●Target of Luddite movement ●hole in card at a certain place causes ●riots against Industrial Revolution change in the weave at corresponding ●threatened craft guilds place in the fabric fig from britannica.com fig from Wikipedia, Jacquard loom entry Programmable Loom (1/2) Programmable Loom (2/2) Burke (1978) Burke (1978) * * Charles Babbage & Difference Engine Charles Babbage & Analytical Engine ●England, 1822-1830: Designed ●1833: Designed the “Analytical Engine” ●Could not get funding, since never finished first and worked on a “Difference machine, but fully designed Engine” for calculations ●to be steam-powered ●This was the first general purpose computer! ●Compute tables of logarithms ●Separate storage from calculation ●Never finished it: current manufacturing technology not able to provide required ●Familiar parts: ●mill <=> ALU precision in cogs and gears ●store <=> memory ●Others later built one: 7 feet by 11 feet, 3 ●operator <=> control unit tons, 4000 moving parts ●output <=> input/output ●Used punched cards figs from cbi.umn.edu/about/babbage.html fig from www.sciencemuseum. org.uk * * Ada Lovelace Following Babbage ●Augusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace ●General purpose computing waited ●Daughter of poet Lord Byron ●Friend of Charles Babbage ●Instead, several different specific devices ●Translated, edited, and commented ●Most computational devices still mechanical on document describing Babbage’s ●Typewriters (1868) Analytical Engine ●Adding machines (1875) and calculators ●Cash registers (1879) fig from women.cs.cmu.edu/ada ●Described its potential as a general purpose computer ●Wrote “programs” that could be run on it. As a result, she is often considered the world’s first computer programmer. ●Wrote about potential uses, even for computer music * * Herman Hollerith U.S. Census ●Herman Hollerith developed tabulating machine ●Taken every 10 years ●Developed machines for encoding ●By late 1800s, was becoming more difficult information on punched cards ●1880 census not tabulated until 1888 ●Cards could be sorted and ●Serious doubt that 1890 census could be finished before tabulated time for following census ●1890 census completed in 2 ●Competition held to develop automatic enumeration and years with Hollerith’s tabulation of census data machines fig from www.columbia.edu/acis/ ● ● Also saved millions of dollars A fundamental need for “large-scale” computing history/census-tabulator.html * * Further Development Encoding ●Work continued on machines to add, tabulate, record. ●Charles Flint: Computing, Tabulating, Recording (CTR) company, Information followed up on Hollerith’s work. ●Thomas J. Watson renames CTR to International Business Machines (IBM) in 1924. ●Individual machines were created for each stage of a fig from www.columbia.edu/acis/history/census- tabulator.html process ●Punched cards were used to store information ●For example, separate machines to count, sort. ●Jacquard’s Loom ●Most machines encoded information on punched cards. ●Babbage’s machines ●Hollerith’s tabulating machines ●IBM machines fig from www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ ●Punched cards and punched tape seen as a way of achieving compatibility, transfer of data. * * Impact of World War II Howard Aiken & MARK I (ASCC) ●Funded by Navy and IBM, at ●Applications of the 1940's: Harvard ●ballistics tables ●1930's and 40's ●troop deployment data ●general-purpose programmable ●secret codes computer ●used relays, magnets and gears fig from www.diggerhistory.info ●used binary values (0/1) instead of ●Several research projects, funded by decimal (0 to 9) ●used vacuum tubes and electric military, focused on developing computers current (on/off) instead of 10- ○on both sides toothed gears ●memory: 72 numbers ●speed: 23-digit multiplication in 4 seconds fig from www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ * * Grace Murray Hopper ENIAC ●Joined Naval Reserve in 1943 ●As Lieutenant, became one of the first programmers of the Mark I ●"Electronic Numerical Integrator and ●Eventually reached rank of Admiral Computer" ●1940's ●Noted difficulty of programming in machine language ●Motivating application: calculate firing ●Wanted way of specifying programming more naturally tables (how to aim gun depending on ●Created the first compiler, A-O distance, wind speed, temp, etc.) ●Subsequently created other compilers, became strong proponent of ●Funded by Army at Univ. of Penn. compilers/programming languages ●John Mauchly & Presper Eckert lead ●Developed programming languages, notably COBOL (1959) designers ●First fully electronic general-purpose computer ●Vacuum-tube based ●Required rewiring to change program originally ●100 feet long, 10 feet high, 30 tons ●1000 times faster than Mark I figs from www.library.upenn. edu/exhibits/rbm/mauchly/jwm8b fig from cs.vassar.edu/history/hopper fig from computerhistory.org * German Enigma Machine Other War-Time Projects ●Z1: Germany, Konrad Zuse ●destroyed during WWII before completed ●ABC: Iowa State, John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry ●solve systems of linear equations ●Colossus: England, Alan Turing ●cracked German Enigma code ●shrouded in secrecy until 1970's Computer History Museum fig from http://en.wikipedia. Alan Turing led the code cracking effort, which contributed greatly to org/wiki/Atanasoff–Berry_Computer the allied victory in World War II. * * Von Neumann Architecture Aspect Still Missing… ●John Von Neumann, ●All these projects still missing a key feature of mathematician, physicist, chemist, modern computers computer scientist,… at Princeton ●Programming these machines was done fig from mathdl.maa.org externally with ●worked on ENIAC ●wires ●realized shortcoming ●connectors ●Key idea: ●plugboards ●encode instructions as binary values and ●Memory stored only data, not instructions store in memory along with data ●To change the program, need to rewire ●To change program, rewrite sequence of ●Ex: 6000 switches on ENIAC instructions fig from cs.cmu. edu/ref/pgss/lecture/11 * * Where Did the Idea Come From? Storing Programs Andrew Hodges credits Alan Turing’ s work on the concept of the ●EDVAC – Electronic Discrete Variable Universal Turing Machine Automated Calculator Notion of one machine for all tasks, ●John von Neumann described although it seems obvious to us now, ●UPenn, 1950 ●Designed before ENIAC operational fig from http://www. was not at all obvious: turingarchive.org/browse. ●became commercial UNIVAC I, bought by CensusU.S. Army Photo of EDVAC php/K/7/9-16 Bureau “If it should turn out that the basic logics of a machine ●EDSAC

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