History of computing

By ÍñigoVg
  • 1973 BCE

    Vinton Cerf

    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)
  • 1962 BCE

    J.C.R. Licklider

    J.C.R. Licklider
    He was the first director of ARPA. Computers continued to be rapidly connected to the ARPANET
  • 1954 BCE

    John Backus.

    John Backus.
    He invented "FORTRAN" The first assembly language.
  • 1951 BCE

    Eckert and Mauchly

    Eckert and Mauchly
    They begins with the commercial UNIVAC
  • 1946 BCE

    Von Neumann

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

    John V. Atanasoff

    John V. Atanasoff
    He desingned the first large-scale digital computer ENIAC
  • 1944 BCE

    Howard T. Aiken

    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
  • 1854 BCE

    Georges Boole

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

    Ada Byron (Lovelace)

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

    Charles Babbage

    Charles Babbage
    He proposed two computer machines moved by steam machines "The Difference Machine" and "The Analytical Machine"
  • 1672 BCE

    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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

    Blaise Pascal

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

    Wilhelm Schickard

    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)
  • 1614 BCE

    John Napier

    John Napier
    He invented logarithms.
  • 1545 BCE

    Geronimo Cardano

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

    Leonardo Fibonacci

    Leonardo Fibonacci
    The first to write about Arabic numerals in the West.
  • 825 BCE

    Abu Ja'far Mohammed ibn Musa al-Khowarizmi

    Abu Ja'far Mohammed ibn Musa al-Khowarizmi
    He invented the algorithm.
  • 400 BCE

    Aristotle

    Aristotle
    He presented deductive and systematized reasoning.
  • 387 BCE

    Plato

    Plato
    He introduced the ideas or abstractions.
  • 300 BCE

    Euclid

    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