Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Garfinkel, Simson (1965-....)
Grunspan, Rachel H.
Titre(s) : The computer book [Texte imprimé] : from the abacus to artificial intelligence, 250 milestones in the history of computer science / Simson L. Garfinkel and Rachel H. Grunspan
Publication : New York : Sterling, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (528 p.) : ill. en coul. ; 23 cm
Collection : Sterling milestones series
Lien à la collection : Sterling milestones series
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 516-523
"Two expert authors, with decades' of experience working in computer research and
innovation, explore topics including the Sumerian abacus, the first spam message,
Morse code, cryptography, early computers, Isaac Asimov's laws of robotics, UNIX and
early programming languages, movies, video games, mainframes, minis and micros, hacking,
virtual reality, and more"
Sujet(s) : Informatique -- Histoire
Genre ou forme : Ouvrages illustrés
Ouvrages de référence
Indice(s) Dewey :
004.09 (23e éd.) = Informatique - Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-1-4549-2621-4 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb465292489
Notice n° :
FRBNF46529248
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : C. 2500 BCE: Sumerian abacus ; c. 700 BC: Scytale ; c. 150: Antikythera mechanism
; c. 60: Programmable robot ; c. 850: "On Deciphering Cryptographic Messages" ;
c. 1470: Cipher disk ; 1613: First recorded use of the word "computer" ; 1621: Slide
rule ; 1703: Binary arithmetic ; 1758: Human computers predict Halley's comet ;
1770: The "Mechanical Turk" ; 1792: Optical telegraph ; 1801: The Jacquard loom
; 1922: The difference engine ; 1836: Electrical telegraph ; 1843: Ada Lovelace
writes a computer program ; 1843: Fax machine patented ; 1843: Edgar Allan Poe's
"The Gold-Bug" ; 1851: Thomas arithmometer ; 1854: Boolean algebra ; 1864: First
electromagnetic spam message ; 1874: Baudot code ; 1874: Semiconductor diode ;
1890: Tabulating the US census ; 1891: Stronger step-by-step switch ; 1914: Floating-point
numbers ; 1917: Vernam cipher ; 1920: "Rossum's Universal Robots" ; 1927: "Metropolis"
; 1927: First LED ; 1928: Electronic speech synthesis ; 1931: Differential analyzer
; 1936: Church-Turing thesis ; 1941: Z3 computer ; 1942: Atansoff-Berry computer
; 1942: Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics ; 1943: ENIAC ; 1943: Colossus ;
1944: Delay line memory ; 1944: Binary-coded decimal ; 1945: "As we may think"
; 1945: EDVAC "First Draft" report ; 1946: Trackball ; 1946: Williams tube ; 1947:
Actual bug found ; 1947: Silicon transistor ; 1948: The bit ; 1949: Curta calculator
; 1948: Manchester SSEM ; 1949: Whirlwind ; 1950: Error-correcting codes ; 1951:
The Turing test ; 1951: Magnetic tape used for computers ; 1951: Core memory ;
1951: Microprogramming ; 1952: Computer speech recognition ; 1953: First transistorized
computer ; 1955: "Artificial Intelligence" coined ; 1955: Computer proves mathematical
theorem ; 1956: First disk storage unit ; 1956: The byte ; 1956: Robby the Robot
; 1957: FORTRAN ; 1957: First digital image ; 1958: The Bell 101 modem ; 1958:
SAGE computer operational ; 1959: IBM 1401 ; 1959: PDP-1 ; 1959: Quicksort ; 1959:
Airline reservation system ; 1960: COBOL computer language ; 1960: Recommended standard
232 ; 1961: ANITA electronic calculator ; 1969: Ultimate: first mass-produced robot
; 1961: Time-sharing ; 1962: "Spacewar!" ; 1962: Virtual memory ; 1962: Digital
long distance ; 1963: Sketchpad ; 1963: ASCII ; 1964: RAND tablet ; 1964: Teletype
model 33 ASR ; 1964: BASIC computer language ; 1965: First liquid-crystal display
; 1965: Fiber optics ; 1965: DENDRAL ; 1965: ELIZA ; 1965: Touchscreen ; 1966:
"Star Trek" premiers ; 1966: Dynamic RAM ; 1967: Object-oriented programming ;
1967: First cash machine ; 1967: Head-mounted display ; 1967: Programming for children
; 1967: The mouse ; 1968: Carterfone decision ; 1968: Software engineering ; 1968:
HAL 9000 computer ; 1968: First spacecraft guided by computer ; 1968: "Cyberspace"
coined ... and re-coined ; 1968: Mother of all demos ; 1968: Dot matrix printer
; 1968: Interface message processor (IMP) ; 1969: ARPANET/Internet ; 1969: Digital
imaging ; 1969: "Network Working Group REquest for Comments: 1" ; 1969: Utility
computing ; 1969: "Perceptrons" ; 1969: UNIX ; 1970: Fair Credit Reporting Act
; 1970: Relational database ; 1979: Floppy disk ; 1971: Laser printer ; 1971: NP-completeness
; 1971: @mail ; 1971: First microprocessor ; 1971: First wireless network ; 1972:
C programming language ; 1972: Cray research ; 1972: "Game of Life" ; 1972: PH-35
calculator ; 1972: "Pong" ; 1973: First cell phone call.
