Health, Safety, Environment (HSE)

Computer History Year/Enter Computer History Inventors/ Inventions Computer History Description of Event 1936 Konrad Zuse -  Z1 Computer First freely programmable computer. 1942 John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry ABC Computer Who was first in the computing biz is not always as easy as ABC. 1944 Howard Aiken & Grace Hopper Harvard Mark I Computer The Harvard Mark 1 computer. 1946 John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly ENIAC 1 Computer 20,000 vacuum tubes later... 1948 Frederic Williams & Tom Kilburn Manchester Baby Computer & The Williams Tube Baby and the Williams Tube turn on the memories. 1947/48 John Bardeen, Walter Brattain & Wiliam Shockley The Transistor No, a transistor is not a computer, but this invention greatly affected the history of computers. 1951 John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly UNIVAC Computer First commercial computer & able to pick presidential winners. 1953 International Business Machines IBM 701 EDPM Co...

This history was written in the spring of 2000 when I was in  eighth grade . For several years after I wrote it, the text was available online and it became a reference for other articles, Wikipedia entries, and even college courses. I have placed the report here for posterity and amusement (how could I have possibly left out Python??). In 2004, I made two updates in response to e-mailed criticisms, but the text is otherwise unchanged. For a more up-to-date reference, I shamelessly point you  to Wikipedia . —  Andrew Ferguson   A History of Computer Programming Languages Ever since the invention of Charles Babbage’s difference engine in 1822, computers have required a means of instructing them to perform a specific task. This means is known as a programming language. Computer languages were first composed of a series of steps to wire a particular program; these morphed into a series of steps keyed into the computer and then executed; later these languages acqui...

This history was written in the spring of 2000 when I was in  eighth grade . For several years after I wrote it, the text was available online and it became a reference for other articles, Wikipedia entries, and even college courses. I have placed the report here for posterity and amusement (how could I have possibly left out Python??). In 2004, I made two updates in response to e-mailed criticisms, but the text is otherwise unchanged. For a more up-to-date reference, I shamelessly point you  to Wikipedia . —  Andrew Ferguson   A History of Computer Programming Languages Ever since the invention of Charles Babbage’s difference engine in 1822, computers have required a means of instructing them to perform a specific task. This means is known as a programming language. Computer languages were first composed of a series of steps to wire a particular program; these morphed into a series of steps keyed into the computer and then executed; later these languages acqui...

http://www.uaar.edu.pk/admissions/meritlistbs2/BS(CS)(Morning).pdf

Hi all,  I'm currently working for RIM (creators of the BlackBerry) in  Waterloo, and will be coming back to UVic this summer as a Campus  Ambassador for the company, along with another comp sci student from  UVic.  One of the ideas that I wanted to see the light was the Development  Workshop for the BlackBerry platform. RIM will be soon releasing  updated versions of many of their public development APIs, and in  light of the BlackBerry App World being pushed to the market I thought  it will be great timing for us to get more people developing cool apps  for the platform.  I gathered enough internal support here at RIM for this initiative, so  you can be sure that the workshop materials will be of top quality.  We're thinking of running a development contest as well, after the  workshops, to get people engaged in the development. Some interesting  prizes will be awarded.  With this in mind, given that enou...