Computer History
Computer Education PowerPoint – Computer History
Directions – Please use any online resource (Encarta, for example) as a research tool to locate the information below. Create a Publisher document with color, text and images to describe the HISTORY OF COMPUTERS. Feel free to cut and paste, or put information into your own words.
Goals of this assignment – familiarize yourself with Encarta 2003 and its features, learn more about the history of computers, use Publisher to inform an audience about a serious topic.
How to begin: Type “computer” or "computer history" in the box next to FIND…from the outline, choose INTRODUCTION
Questions to address:
Questions to address:
Computer Education PowerPoint – Computer History
Directions – Please use any online resource (Encarta, for example) as a research tool to locate the information below. Create a Publisher document with color, text and images to describe the HISTORY OF COMPUTERS. Feel free to cut and paste, or put information into your own words.
Goals of this assignment – familiarize yourself with Encarta 2003 and its features, learn more about the history of computers, use Publisher to inform an audience about a serious topic.
How to begin: Type “computer” or "computer history" in the box next to FIND…from the outline, choose INTRODUCTION
Questions to address:
- What is a computer?
- Describe AND show Babbage’s Difference Engine
- Explain who Grace Hopper is, what she did and show who she was
- Go to How Computers Work: Identify the parts of a computer by including a diagram in your presentation
- Follow the links for CPU to locate a picture and definition for a microprocessor
- Explain who Herman Hollerith is, the invention he created and the purpose for which it was used
- Define Operating system and include a picture to show it in action
- Explain bits and bytes
- Go to Programming Languages: define it, show it,
- Go to FORTRAN: Identify John Backus, explain his role in IBM and describe what the man & the company did
- Go to NETWORKS: Click on the “network” link…define the term, show a star configuration & a token ring configuration and explain the 3 layers of components in a network
- Go to FUTURE TECHNOLOGY AND TRENDS: How do wireless technology work?
- Describe the work of Fujitsu
Questions to address:
- Explain the importance of 1948
- Describe the role of the following people and identify the machines they created: Wilhelm Schikard, Blaise Pascal, Gottfried Leibniz, Jacquard, Charles Babbage, Augusta Ada Byron, Hollerith, Turing, Aiken
- Show the first computers with images of EDVAC, ENIAC and UNIVAC