From a young age, Tim Berners-Lee was exposed to the field of computer science, which sparked his interest in in that particular field, prompting his innovation of the internet. Lee was born in 1955 in England to Mary Lee Woods and Conway Berners-Lee, the two computer scientists who were operating with the the first computer, the Ferranti Mark I, to be put on the commercial market ( ). He describes his childhood as being one with a scholarly environment, saying his family “discussed imaginary numbers over breakfast.” As a child, one of his favorite hobbies included tinkering with electronics. Lee often constructed his own pretend computers, composed merely of cardboard boxes
( ). In his teens, he was infatuated with science fiction, and particularly obsessed over the story "Dial F for Frankenstein", in which an apparatus of computers function as a sort of human brain( ). His youth hobbies gradually developed into a passion for engineering, which Lee pursued at Oxford University at Cambridge. Graduating with an honors degree in physics from the Queen’s College at Oxford, his tenacity in striving for success paid off. Following this successful commencement, Lee worked for several high tech firms in England, and finally stayed at CERN,a physics laboratory, where he was assigned the project of fabricating software ( ).
Lee’s development of the new program “Enquire” was an obstacle he overcame in the expanse of computer science. His project was impelled by the difficulty scientists had in exchanging information internationally, as many different versions of text persisted. When Lee was employed at the lab at CERN, he encountered astute scientists from all over the world, who were collaborating on the work and e...
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... He made this World Wide Web browser, web server and software available as what he called “internet” ( ). The internet rocketed due to the users worldwide who were generating their own web servers, and connecting them through the web ( ).
These international users emailed Lee, giving him suggestions ; Lee made use of the feedback and employed their ideas to better the internet. The allure of the web caused it to progress rapidly, as within five years of the internets’ establishment, the number of users jumped from five hundred thousand to forty million. Due to his creation of such a fascinating tool, Lee was awarded many titles, such as being recognized as one of the hundred greatest minds of the century by Time and being knighted by Queen Elizabeth for his “ground-breaking innovation in engineering that has been of global benefit to humanity” ( ).
In the beginning of this week, I tried to continue and complete the reading of the previous unit as I'm not just interested in having good grades in my assignments without reading all the materials, but really insist on learning in order to have a solid base in computer science that can boost my carrier. So I started to read the "Problem Solving and Programming Design" and the "Problem Solving Basics" documents and I really enjoyed them as I learned how to decompose a problem in order to design an algorithm and to provide a good and consistent program.
Joseph Licklider worked on a Cold War project called SAGE designed to create computer-based air defense systems against Soviet Union bombers. Lick became increasingly interested in computing thereafter. Coming to the world of computing from a psychology background gave Lick a unique perspective. Computing at the time consisted mainly of batch-processing operations. Large problems would be outlined in advance and operations coded onto paper punch cards that were then fed into computers in large batches.
Alan Turing has been called many things throughout his time; mathematician, cryptanalyst, and a computing pioneer are just a few of the titles placed upon his shoulders. He contributed to many fields, but he is hailed for his work in the field of mathematics, the computer science community, and his efforts in cryptography during World War II.
(“Whirlwind” Internet) “computers of that time were capable of a multitude of small tasks, like data processing (i.e. IRS related material, and information storage.), word processing (i.e. extremely early model of Microsoft word), data analysis (i.e. survey taking), complex calculations (i.e. weather prediction) communications (i.e., the telephone system (switching))” (“ Computers” Internet).
Alan Mathison Turing was born in Paddington, London, on June 23, 1912. He was a precocious child and began his interests in science and mathematics at a young age, but was never concerned about other right-brain classes such as English. This continued until an important friend of his passed away and set Turing on a path to achieve what his friend could no longer accomplish. When his friend Christopher Morcom died, Turing was launched into thoughts in physics about the physical mind being embodied in matter and whether quantum-mechanical theory affects the traditional problem of mind and matter. Many say today that this was the beginnings of Turing’s Turning Machine and the test still used today for artificial intelligence, the Turing Test.
... The history of the internet takes us back to the pioneering of the network and the development of capable technologies. The explosion of the internet’s popularity in the 1990’s was large and dramatic, boosting our economy and then helping to bring it into a major recession. One can only hope that the explosion becomes organized and slightly standardized in the interest of the general public.
saw the future demands of the computer industry. He was able to build a personal
Goldstine, Herman H. "Computers at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School." The Jayne Lecture. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 136, No.1. January 24, 1991
To provide the necessary context for the design of the Turing Machine, one must study the history of its creator, Alan Turing. He was born on June 23, 1912, in the city of London. Although a very wise child,
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It was at Lakeside that he was first introduced to computers. In the spring of 1968 the Lakeside Prep School concluded that it should acquaint the student body with the world of computers. They were still too large and costly for the school to purchase it's own, so instead they had a fund raiser and bought computer time on a DEC PDP-10 owned by General Electric. A few thousand dollars were raised which the school figured would buy more than enough time to last into the next school year. But they had drastically underestimated the amount of students that would be addicted to this machine.
On February 24, 1955, Steve Paul Jobs was born to Joanne Schieble and Abdulfattah "John" Jandali, parents who wanted the best for their child. As an infant, Jobs was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs. Though his biological parents did not attend college, Clara and Paul pledged to start a college fund to make sure Steve would attend college (“Steve Jobs Biography”). As a child, teachers had taken notice in testing abilities; It was so well that school administrators offered to skip him to high school, an offer that his parents declined. Later on he joined the Hewlett-Packard Explorer Club, where he saw his first computer at the age of 12. Ever since, he had been so fascinated with computers and knew he wanted to work with computers. Attending Homestead High School in 1971, he met his future partner, Steve
The Internet was first introduced in 1969 when a program called ARPA or Advanced Research Projects Agency. ARPA had provided a way to communicate, through a network, with the country in case of a military attack had destroyed traditional communication. It also connected four United States universities and was used for research, education and government organizations. In 1972, Ray Tomlinson introduced E-mail. In 1973, Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) became the standard for computers to communicate over the Internet. In 1982 the word Internet is used for the first time. The domain name system (DNS) is introduced in 1984, which identified network addresses with .com, .org, and .edu. From that point on everything began to rapidly change. Things like America Online was developed, viruses start...
In 1973, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) initiated a research program to investigate techniques and technologies for interlinking packet networks of various kinds. It then expanded to other governmental agencies and then to higher education. This was called the Internetting project and the system of networks, which emerged from the research, was known as the "Internet." Al Gore is described as "an advocate of the information superhighway". He helped bring it to our national attention that he invented the Internet. It is not true that he invented the Internet but it is true that he had a small part in its development. Since the early sixties, when Al Gore was still in high school, the development of networking technology had already started. It is true that the Internet has grown and flourished tremendously during Gore's tenure, but that hardly means he caused it to happen.
The Internet has made access to information easier. Information is stored efficiently and organized on the Internet. For example, instead of going to our local library, we can use Internet search engines. Simply by doing a search, we get thousands of results. The search engines use a ranking system to help us retrieve the most pertinent results in top order. Just a simple click and we have our information. Therefore, we can learn about anything, immediately. In a matter of moments, we can become an expert.