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CIS 101
Summer, 1999 Instructor: Eli Minkoff |
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Sunday 28,1999
1.Burroughs Corporation was founded in the year 1986 by William Seward Burroughs Boyer Machine Company shop, it was here he stated working on the adding machine. William Seward Burroughs only glimpsed the beginning of the office automation phenomenon, for he died, in Citronelle, Alabama, in 1898.
2.System Development Corporation evolved out of the Systems Development Division of the RAND Corporation. The RAND Corporation was a non-profit group incorporated in 1948 by technical engineers and military people who worked together during World War II.
3.Burroughs and SDC had worked together early in the SAGE program. In 1985, SDC had booked Government contracts totaling more than $650 million with the Defense Department, NASA ,and other government agencies.
4.Silicon Valley and Route 128 in Boston, this name is well known through out the World Wide Web.
5.Engineering Research Associates is responsible for the computer industry in Minnesota in 1946. Among this group was Howard Engstrom, William C. Norris, and Ralph Meader, who joined with investment banker John Parker to create ERA. Here are two others that also contributed to this boom of technology: Minnesota Electronics Corporation (1952?-1954) Remington Rand Univac (1952-1955). The list is very long, with respect towards the amount of companies in Minnesota.
6. The links to these pages show that the idea of calculating has been around for a very long time (http://uranus.ee.auth.gr/TMTh/frames_e.htm) "The ancient Greek calculator" The mechanism is a system of 32 gears, which determine calendar movements and performs stellar calculations. Home page of Museum of Science and Technology (http://www.nmsi.ac.uk/) just copy into your browser address box. It is worth mentioning that the national Museum of Science and Technology in Europe is a very interesting site to visit.
7.ALAN TURING, according to the site that I visited this distinct Gentleman was the founder of computer science in (1936) Turing, had the idea that the Turing machine model would describe everything that the brain did: that one-day computers would think. Link to this theory http://www.turing.org.uk/synth/main.html
8.Sir Roger Penrose FRS., Twistor Theory, a radical reformulation of the geometrical description of space-time. Mathematics has quite a bit to do with computer computation and this is why these ideas are relevant.
9.Hopf Project is the creation of a new and developing software program that will aid in the study of algebra. The intended audience is research mathematicians and graduate students, although some physicists may find the package useful.
10.In todays world The World Wide Web offers technology right at our finger tips. Reasearch programs like this one will become a great aid to any one doing studies in technology (http://www.cs.vt.edu/index5.html) this is the link to this aid.
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