... engine worked just as well as Babbage did. For this, she is now titled to be the first female computer programmer (Computers: History n.p.). Early in the 20th century, a man named Alan Turing became widely considered as the father of modern computer science. Turing often used his skill to find ways for creating artificial intelligence, or AI. He wrote many papers that ... potassium cyanide. "When he died, Turing left the world a permanent legacy. Computers have revolutionized so many aspects of our world that today it is hard to imagine life without them" (Alan Turing n.p.). Throughout ...

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... very useful 8- floppy was just the start of what was to come within the next 20 years. The floppy disk was invented by IBM engineers led by none other than Alan Shugart. The first floppy disks his team created were just designed for loading micro codes into the controller of the IBM 3330 disk pack file. However, additional uses for the ... letters are even larger! Just five years after the invention of the 8- Floppy disk, a new floppy had been invented. In 1976, the 5 ¼- floppy disk and drive had been created by Alan Shugart and his team of IBM engineers. Mr. Shugart had taken on the p...

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... . By extending this concept to electronic circuits in the form of on or off, Atanasoff and Berry had developed the first all-electronic computer by 1940. On 23 June 1912, Alan Turing was born and was destined to make his mark on the history of computing. He was the son of Julius Mathius Turing and Sara Stoney, the youngest of three ... children. Alan was born to a distinguished family and was educated at Sherbourne School. He graduated in 1935 at Kings College, Cambridge with a B.A in mathematics and won a Smiths prize in 1936 on a paper ... ...

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... thinking experiment, the analogy of computers and artificial intelligence is decided. According to Searle, computers that do not understand cannot be intelligent. Counter arguing this analogy is the Turing Test. Alan Turing invented the Turing Test in 1937. This test is another analogy of the capacity of computers. For a machine to be considered intelligent it must first pass the Turing test ... ...

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... to Upgrading 7.10 (1999): 86-92. Kleppinger, Joel and Scott Wainner. "How to Build Your PC." SysOpt.com. 5 Feb 1999. http://www.sysopt.com/buildpc/index2.html (5 Nov. 1999). Phelps, Alan. "How to Install...CPU's." PCNovice/Smart Computing Guide to Upgrading 7.10 (1999): 33-37. Sems, Marty. "How to Install_A Hard Drive." PCNovice/Smart Computing Guide to Upgrading 7.10 (1999): 44 ... ...

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... "microprocessor" courses. That same year the Microsoft and Apple Corporations were founded. The 80's. The 91980's brought about huge social, technical, and physical changes to the computing frontline. In 1980, Alan Shugart (having left IBM) developed and introduced the Winchester hard drive, revolutionizing the storage capabilities of personal computers. "No longer would personal computers be limited to tiny internal memories and ... ...

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... fact, computation of any kind, is one in the same. For our Jrobots, we used many different types of loops. The concept of "looping" was first discovered in 1937 by Alan Turing and Alonso Church. ( http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.12/holytech.html) They come up with the idea of "universal computation", which basically states all computers are capable ... ...

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