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Ada Lovelace's Algorithm (Note G)
The 1843 step-by-step table that computes Bernoulli numbers on Babbage's …
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Babbage's Analytical and Difference Engines
The first designs for an automatic calculating machine and a …
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ENIAC
The room-sized machine of about 17,468 vacuum tubes that became the …
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First compiler (Grace Hopper's A-0)
The A-0 system Grace Hopper wrote for UNIVAC I in 1951 to 1952, an early …
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FORTRAN (1957)
The first widely used high-level programming language, built at IBM for …
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Leibniz Step Reckoner
The first mechanical calculator able to add, subtract, multiply, and …
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Shannon: Switching Logic and Information Theory
Claude Shannon's 1937 thesis showed switching circuits can do Boolean …
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The Turing Machine (On Computable Numbers)
Alan Turing's 1936 abstract machine that reads and writes symbols on an …
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Von Neumann Architecture (EDVAC Report)
The 1945 design that holds program instructions and data in the same …
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