ENIAC

The America’s economy has been and will always be the most vital factor in shaping the current contemporary America today. For example, before World War II, technology was not so advanced and very little people in the United States (U.S.) possessed such technologies. During this period of time, the main form of communication of most American people had in their households was the radio. Televisions (TVs) existed back then. However, they were very costly and there were very limited channels to watch

The impact of science and technology on daily life in American culture in the 1950s was tremendous. In the 1950s the closest thing to a computer was a machine called ENIAC (Electrical Numerical Integrator And Calculator). It was made from 18,000 vacuum tubes and it took 180,000 watts of electricity to power it, it was able to multiply numbers very fast. Work on the hydrogen bomb made scientists very eager to increase the capability and capacity of the computer. Computers would have remained really

Institute Of Technology (MIT) about constructing a flight simulator to train bomb crews. The team first built an analog computer, but they found it not logical and suitable for its purpose. After the designers of the computer saw a illustration of the ENIAC computer, they decided to build a digital computer. By the time the Whirlwind was completed in 1951, the U.S Navy lost interest in the project. In 1946, Maunchly and Presper leave the University of Pennsylvania and receive funding from the Census

ARQUITECTURA DEL ORDENADOR Historia de la computación La computadora como la conocemos hay en día, es el resultado de la evolución del aporte de ideas que varias personas realizaron para obtener un artefacto que ayudara al hombre a realizar cálculos complejos para ahorrar tiempo, esfuerzo y dinero. Comenzando desde el ábaco, que aunque no se lo puede considerar una computadora, nos ayudaba a realizar cálculos matemáticos. En el siglo XVll, el francés Blaise Pascal inventó la pascalina, una máquina

Discrimination Against Women as Addressed in Cantor's Dilemma   In his novel, Cantor's Dilemma, Dr. Djerassi uses female characters to address sexist issues arising from women integrating into the predominantly male science world. The characters, Celestine Price and Professor Arderly, are used to show examples of how women have little voice in the field of science. The female characters suggest how women are often looked upon as sex objects rather than co-workers and they are given little

began to search more into the study of computers, and how to improve upon them. Those next ten years say the introduction of the transistor, which would become a vital part of the inner workings of the computer, the ENIAC 1 computer, as well as many other types of systems. The ENIAC 1 is perhaps one of the most interesting, as it required 20,000 vacuum tubes to operate. It was a massive machine, and started the revolution to build smaller and faster computers . Technology began with the earliest

Analyzer and Computer (ENIAC), was built at the University of Pennsylvania to do ballistics calculations for the US military during world war II. It cost $500,00, weighed 30 tons and took up nearly 2,000 square feet of floor space. On the outside, It was covered in a tangle of cables, hundreds of blinking lights and nearly 6,000 mechanical switches to operators. On the inside, almost 18,000 vacuum tubes carried electrical signals from one part of the machine to another. When ENIAC was presented to the

The history of computers is a long and fascinating one. The computer was initially born out of necessity, not just for entertainment, which is more or less how much people utilize computers these days. In fact, computers were born out of a need to solve a serious number-crunching crisis. By 1880, the U.S. population had grown so large that it took more than seven years to tabulate the U.S. Census results. The government sought a faster way to get the job done, giving rise to punch-card based computers

It is rational to believe that technology will continue to advance in the following years and decades. Especially with the rapid growth and development society saw over the past 30 years. The fact that such a titanic computer like the ENIAC or the Colossus weighing over 30 tons has developed into laptops that can weigh as little as 3 pounds like the new MacBook Pro is astonishing. It is impressive the way that technology evolves and to predict the future of it is near impossible because of the industry-changing

History of Computing 1 General principles 1 2 Etymology (Where the word is from) 2 3 The exponential progress of computer development 2 4 Classification of computers 2 4.1 Classification by intended use 2 4.2 Classification by implementation technology 3 4.3 Classification by design features 3 4.3.1 Digital versus analog 3 4.3.2 Binary versus decimal 4 4.3.3 Programmability 4 4.3.4 Storage 4 4.4