A brief history of computer science infographic

Computer science History

By helenamijangos
  • 2500 BCE

    Mesopotamia (Irak)

    Mesopotamia (Irak)
    The Plimpton 322 clay tablet shows 60 numbers in 15 rows and 4 columns. It is known that it is a piece of a larger board that had 38 rows and 8 columns. What was it for? The strongest hypothesis is that it was a school tablet. The Babylonians used school tablets with the statement of a mathematical problem on one side and its solution on the other
  • 500 BCE

    Precolombia

    Precolombia
    Calendars mark the passage of time, they sort the events of the past, they situate the present and they allow an awareness of the future, all traits that in the end facilitate social life. For the Mesoamerican peoples, time was a sacred element, a creation of the gods, who had also provided them with a calendar which allowed them not only to record significant events in their history, but also structure your daily and ritual life. Today, although this calendar is in disuse.

  • John Napier

    John Napier
    The bones of Napier, were developed by the inventor of the logarithms to realize multiplications, divisions and square roots. Napier's bones consisted of an individualized and particular version of the multiplication tables.

  • Sir Samuel Morland

    Sir Samuel Morland
    Sir Samuel Morland was an English academic highlighted in the history by the invention of various machines of calculation new for his time, among which emphasized an adder, a machine to perform trigonometric calculations, and a multiplier; he made for King Charles II of England.

  • Ada Lovelace

    Ada Lovelace
    In 1834, Babbage had plans for the construction of a new type of calculating machine, a general analytical machine. The analytical machine is the design of a modern general purpose computer that represented an important step forward in the history of computing.

  • Niklaus Wirth

    Niklaus Wirth
    Pascal is a language created by Swiss professor Niklaus Wirth between 1968 and 1969 and published in 1970. His goal was to create a language that facilitated the learning of programming to his students, using structured programming and data structuring. However, over time its use exceeded the academic scope to become a tool for the creation of applications of all kinds.

  • Intel

    Intel
    The Intel 80386 (i386, 386) is a CISC microprocessor with x86 architecture. During its design it was called 'P3', because it was the prototype of the third generation x86. The i386 was used as the central processing unit of many personal computers from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
    Manufactured and designed by Intel.