Computers simplify complex tasks into calculations that can be performed quickly. Capable of storing large amounts of information for easy access, they have revolutionized the world. Computer performance has so increased, that we are in an age where the electronic brain will soon rival our own.
TIME LINE
1995
ENIAC ( Electronic Numerical Intergrator and Calculator) first built in the USA
1948
Manchester Mart I, the first storey program (RAM) computers is built in the UK. Filling a room the size of small office, it Performs about 500 operations per second.
1958
US engineer Jack kilby uses semiconductor materials to make the first microchip (Integrated circuit), using a semiconductor.
1964
BASIC (Beginners All - Purpose Symbolic Instructions Code), the popular programming language is created by professors at Dartmouth College, US.
1971
Intel 4004, the first Microprocessor chip is produced in the US. It performs 60,000 operations per second.
1977
Mass - produced computers appear
1990
IBM Pentium PC produced. It can perform 112 million instructions per second.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Scientists are developing AI to produce thinking Computers. The difficulty lies in translating knowledge based on experience and intuitions into the mathematical computer logic
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