History of computing

  • Vinton Cerf
    1973 BCE

    Vinton Cerf

    He began the development of the protocol that would later be called TCP / IP, a protocol aimed at communicating some networks over others. ( The Internet Protocol or IP)
  • J.C.R. Licklider
    1962 BCE

    J.C.R. Licklider

    He was the first director of ARPA. Computers continued to be rapidly connected to the ARPANET
  • John Backus.
    1954 BCE

    John Backus.

    He invented "FORTRAN" The first assembly language.
  • Eckert and Mauchly
    1951 BCE

    Eckert and Mauchly

    They begins with the commercial UNIVAC
  • Von Neumann
    1946 BCE

    Von Neumann

    He worked on a new project, EDVAC, assumed responsibility for the design of the logical structure which used binary notation.
  • John V. Atanasoff
    1945 BCE

    John V. Atanasoff

    He desingned the first large-scale digital computer ENIAC
  • Howard T. Aiken
    1944 BCE

    Howard T. Aiken

    He designed and built an electromechanical machine named Mark 1 capable of multiplying two numbers in six seconds and dividing them by twelve
  • Georges Boole
    1854 BCE

    Georges Boole

    The logic of a self-taught he established for the process of reasoning a symbolic representation. "1" (true) and "0" (false)
  • Ada Byron (Lovelace)
    1840 BCE

    Ada Byron (Lovelace)

    With the help of Charles Babbage they developed the first "programs" for these computers and laid the foundations for programming languages.
  • Charles Babbage
    1837 BCE

    Charles Babbage

    He proposed two computer machines moved by steam machines "The Difference Machine" and "The Analytical Machine"
  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
    1672 BCE

    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

    He built a device, known as the Leibniz wheel. This device could automatically perform additions, subtractions, multiplications and divisions.
  • Blaise Pascal
    1643 BCE

    Blaise Pascal

    Who is generally regarded as the inventor of the calculator, manufactured his wits twenty years after Schickard and was less advanced.
  • Wilhelm Schickard
    1623 BCE

    Wilhelm Schickard

    He designed and built what is considered the first digital calculator.
    (Unfortunately, Schickard and his entire family died during an epidemic, and his invention had no diffusion)
  • John Napier
    1614 BCE

    John Napier

    He invented logarithms.
  • Geronimo Cardano
    1545 BCE

    Geronimo Cardano

    Was the one who demonstrated, in 1545, that debts and similar phenomena could be treated with negative numbers.
  • Leonardo Fibonacci
    1200 BCE

    Leonardo Fibonacci

    The first to write about Arabic numerals in the West.
  • Abu Ja'far Mohammed ibn Musa al-Khowarizmi
    825 BCE

    Abu Ja'far Mohammed ibn Musa al-Khowarizmi

    He invented the algorithm.
  • Aristotle
    400 BCE

    Aristotle

    He presented deductive and systematized reasoning.
  • Plato
    387 BCE

    Plato

    He introduced the ideas or abstractions.
  • Euclid
    300 BCE

    Euclid

    Euclid is the character that has had the greatest influence on mathematicians throughout history, by establishing the axiomatic method.
  • Period: 100 BCE to 2020 BCE

    History of computing

    Important people of the history of the computing