Thomas Aquinas, prepared by Roberto Busa beginning in the late 1940s
The Z3 by German inventor Konrad Zuse from 1941 was the first working programmable,
Ralph H. Baer conceived the idea of a home video game in 1951.
Second Generation (1956-1963) Transistors
A minicomputer, or colloquially mini, is a class of smaller computers that evolved in the mid-1960s by DEC, Data General, and Hewlett-Packard.
Third Generation (1964-1971) Integrated Circuits
Hewlett-Packard calculators as far back as 1968 had various levels of programmability such that could be called microcomputers.
As the personal computer (PC) became feasible in the 1970s,was imagined by Alan Kay
Fourth Generation (1971-Present) Microprocessors
Steven Sasson as an engineer at Eastman Kodak invented and built the first electronic camera using a charge-coupled device image sensor in 1975.
Apple was established on April 1, 1976, by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne
August 12, 1981under the direction of Don Estridge
In 1975 Kodak engineer Steven Sasson invented the first digital still camera, which used a Fairchild 100 x 100 pixel CCD. By 1986 Kodak had developed a sensor with 1.4 million pixels.
First developed in 1991, a webcam was pointed at the Trojan Room coffee pot in the Cambridge University Computer Science Department.
Hewlett-Packard in May 2002.
Hewlett-Packard's webOS, and embedded Linux distributions such as Maemo and MeeGo. had come into common usage by 2008
Fifth Generation (Present and Beyond) Artificial Intelligence