Pedernal Jemerson G ICT Network Specialist Palawan State University

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Pedernal Jemerson G

ICT Network Specialist Palawan State University

Chapter 1 Introduction

• The development of modern computer technology has been made possible by – Human Nature– Technological Advances– Theoretical Advances

• This presentation takes a brief look at the human journey from prehistory to today with the focus on the development of the theory and practise of computing

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Pre-Mechanical Computing

• From Counting on fingers• to hash marks in sand• to pebbles• to hash marks on walls• to hash marks on bone

Natural Patterns & Counting

• People notice patterns : this is how we learn from infancy.

• The first primitive counting mechanisms were developed to keep track of and predict seasons etc using the patterns observed in movement of the Sun, Moon, Stars etc

• Early counting devices included notches on sticks, knots in string and marks on walls.

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Magic & Counting

• The ability to accurately predict natural events was a source of power in early human society

• People who could do so would strengthen their claim to supernatural privilege and/or power

• Record keeping was needed to help in accurate predictions and transmission of knowledge.

• Markings on antlers and bones indicate that people made notations of the phases of the moon as long as 30,000 years ago and suggest that the cave rituals and other cultural practices had a seasonal or periodical orientation.

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Monumental Calendars

• The monumental structure, Stonehenge, was built in prehistoric England about 2800 BCE,

• Stonehenge is oriented towards equinoxes, solstices and lunar eclipses during the equinox

• This suggests usage as a complex permanent calendar.

• Stonehenge is just one of many similar monuments.

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Early Counting Devices

• 6000 B.C. [ca]: Ishango bone type of tally stick in use

• 4000 1200 B.C.: Inhabitants of the first known civilization in Sumer keep records of commercial transactions on clay tablets

• These tablets are more than 4500 years old, from the dawn of civilized urban existence and they deal with accounts and tax records! (Taxes and death are always with us)

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Towards Mechanising calculations:The Abacus

The Abacus are the earliest known counting/calculation instruments.

• Used to aid mental calculations • 3000 BCE: The abacus is invented

in Babylonia• Used by Greeks and Romans• Refined to suit counting system of

each culture• Abacus were also developed by

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Towards Mechanising calculations:

Chinese Abacus• Chinese used and refined

abacus technology over a long period

• Chinese abacus (or suanpan): very efficient suanpan techniques have been developed to do multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, square root and cube root operations at high speed.

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The Hindu Zero and Place Value

• The Hindu civilization of India was alone among the ancients in developing a usable representation for numbers (about 2000 years ago)

• They also developed the concept of ZERO and with it the idea of place value.

• This enabled them to develop a high degree of skill in algebra.

• These concepts are critical to the binary system used in modern computers

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Mechanical computers:The Abacus (c. 3000 BCE)

Napier’s Bones andLogarithms (1617)

Picture courtesy IBM

Oughtred’s (1621) and Schickard‘s (1623]

slide rule

Blaise Pascal’sPascaline (1645)

Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz’sStepped Reckoner (1674)

Joseph-Marie Jacquard and his punched card controlled looms

(1804)

Preparing the cards with the pattern for the cloth to be woven

Charles Babbage (1791-1871)The Father of Computers

Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine

Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine

Lady Augusta AdaCountess of Lovelace

Read Lady Augusta Ada’s translation of Menabrea’sSketch of the Analytical Engine

Electro-mechanical computers

FromHerman Hollerith’s

1890Census Counting Machine

to Howard Aiken

and the Harvard Mark I (1944)

Herman Hollerith and hisCensus Tabulating Machine

(1884)

A closer look at the Census Tabulating Machine

The Harvard Mark I (1944)aka IBM’s Automatic Sequence

Controlled Calculator (ASCC)

The first computer bugRear Admiral Dr. Grace Murray Hopper

Electronic digital computers

FromJohn Vincent Atanasoff’s

1939Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)

to the present day

Alan Turing1912-1954

The Turing MachineAka

The Universal Machine1936

John Vincent Atanasoff (1903-1995)

Physics ProfAt

Iowa StateUniversity,Ames, IA

Clifford Berry (1918-1963)

PhD studentof

Dr. Atanasoff’s

1939The Atanasoff-Berry Computer

(ABC)

The ABC was the first electronic digital computer, invented by John Vincent Atanasoff

1943 Bletchley Park’s Colossus

The EnigmaMachine

1946The ENIAC

John Presper Eckert(1919-1995)andJohn Mauchly(1907-1980)of theUniversity of Pennsylvania Moore School of Engineering

The ENIAC:Electronic Numerical Integrator

and Computer

Programming the ENIAC

ENIAC’s Wiring!

John Von Neumann came up with the bright idea of using part of the computer’s internal memory (called Primary Memory) to “store” the program inside the computer and have the computer go get the instructions from its own memory, just as we do with our human brain.

John Von Neumann

1951Univac

Typical 1968 prices—EX-cluding maintenance & support!

Unit Quiz

• Get ¼ sheet of Yellow Paper• Multiple Choice Type Quiz• Write the following on top of your paper

• Do not erase you answer, erasure will be considered as wrong answer.

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Your Full Name June 25, 2012Your Course/Year/Block Unit 1 Quiz

Next Unit Unit 2 What is a Computer?

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Pedernal Jemerson G

ICT Network Specialist Palawan State University

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