CSC 106 - Introduction

Lecture 1 - January 4th, 2017

These notes list the main ideas for this lecture. Please check out Alona Fyshe's slides for more information.

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• Abacus (Japanese)
• Why should we care about polynomials?
• Analytical Engine
  • Punch Cards (Held Instructions)
  • RAM
  • CPU
• Tabulate the Census
  • Data Punch Cards
  • IBM
• Computers (Who invented the first computer? A lot of people.)
• Binary
• Conrad Zuse (Standard - Binary)
• Alan Turing (Crack German Codes - WW2)
• Colossus (Crack German Codes - WW2)
• ENIAC
• Solid State Transistor (Computers no longer for Gov, also for Business)
• Apple (Bring Computers to Home)
• Macintosh (Desktop and Folders - Computers no longer just a terminal)