The first programming languages predate the modern computer. During a nine-month period in 1842-1843, Ada Lovelace translated the memoir of Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea about Charles Babbage's newest proposed machine, the Analytical Engine. With the article she appended a set of notes which specified in complete detail a method for calculating Bernoulli numbers with the Analytical Engine, recognized by some historians as the world's first computer program.[1] Herman Hollerith realized
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Triumph of The Nerds-Part 1 Bob Cringely “PC gossip columnist” Abstract Bob Cringely puts PC big shots and nerds on the spot, and tells their incredible true stories from his own Silicon Valley garage. Bob speaks about the emergence of the Personal Computer (PC), stimulating the “PC Revolution”. And it was all started by nerds. It happened more or less by accident; the people who made it happened were amateurs; and for the most part still are. Part 1 is entitled: IMPRESSING THEIR FRIENDS-They
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Leonardo da Vinci thought that mathematics was an essential tool for painting. He had explored the laws of geometric between hexahedron, cylinder, and sphere area. He was the first person using the symbol of plus (+) and minus (-) in mathematics. Grace Hopper was a representative of a modern mathematician. She had great contributions on mathematics because mathematics was her favourite subject since childhood. She obtained her master’s degree in mathematics in 1930 and received her PhD in 1934. Her
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Art And Culture Art and Culture Since the beginning of time, artists have labored extensively to find innovative ways to convey sentiment, passion, and feeling. Telling stories and trying to unlock the minds of people through different avenues of artistic labors. Art touches and affects people in unique ways; it can have special or unusual meaning on the person depending on how one views it. Artists’ rendering of their art is interpreted in numerous ways by others who view it unless it is
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Art And Culture ARTS 125 Art and Culture Since the beginning of time, artists have labored extensively to find innovative ways to convey sentiment, passion, and feeling. Telling stories and trying to unlock the minds of people through different avenues of artistic labors. Art touches and affects people in unique ways; it can have special or unusual meaning on the person depending on how one views it. Artists’ rendering of their art is interpreted in numerous ways by others who view it unless
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software packages. Most programming in COBOL is now purely to maintain existing applications. COBOL was designed in 1959 by the Conference on Data Systems Languages (CODASYL) and was largely based on previous programming language design work by Grace Hopper, commonly referred to as "the (grand)mother of COBOL". It was created as part of a US Department of Defense effort to create a portable programming language for data processing. Intended as a temporary stopgap, the Department of Defense promptly
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From the Abacus to the PC: A Selective History of the Computer Thousands of years ago, the abacus was invented; it was this seemingly simple device that aided a human with calculations, which would be used as the conceptual model to build the computer. Looking back, one of the earliest instances of computer technology in action was not found in a computer at all but in a loom. The Jacquard loom, patented in 1804, was programmed by punched cards to create patterns in woven cloth (Keats 72). Charles
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Navy diversity efforts: Are we on the right course? Paul H. Madore Jr. Excelsior College M3A1: Diversity in the Military ABSTRACT The injection of our service members into diverse cultures around the world has been and continues to be one of the important missions the Navy accomplishes as part of international relations on behalf of the Nation. The advent of near instantaneous communication of good and bad performance results via cellphone, video camera, Internet and news outlets have
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The first computers were people! That is, electronic computers (and the earlier mechanical computers) were given this name because they performed the work that had previously been assigned to people. "Computer" was originally a job title: it was used to describe those human beings (predominantly women) whose job it was to perform the repetitive calculations required to compute such things as navigational tables, tide charts, and planetary positions for astronomical almanacs. Imagine you had a job
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There have been a surprising number of people throughout history considered geniuses, such as Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, Aristotle, Marie Curie, Pablo Picasso, Grace Hopper, Hedy Lamarr, Frida Kahlo, and so on. Considered geniuses for contributions into the realms of math, art, philosophy, technology, and society, these people diverged civilization from what was comfortable and accepted to new roads and revealed groundbreaking advancements. Some believe that geniuses are those with IQ scores
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