08_The Information Age.pptx

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1. The Information Age

2. What is the Information Age? People, Information & Societies that chronicle the birth and growth of electronic information -- from ancient times to Samuel Morse's invention of the telegraph in the 1830s, through the development of the telephone, radio, television, and computer. http://www.tcf.ua.edu/AZ/ITHistoryOutline.htm

3. Four Periods of The Information Age Pre-Mechanical - 3000 B.C.-1450 A.D. Mechanical - 1450-1840 Electro-Mechanical - 1840-1940 Electronic/Information -1940-Present

4. The Pre-Mechanical Age Writing and Alphabets : Cuneiform, Symbols Paper and Pen: Papermaking Books and Libraries: Religious Scrolls, Binding Numbering Systems: Numbers 1-9, Zero The First Calculators The Abacus 3000 B.C.-1450 A.D.

5. The Mechanical Age Movable Type Printing General Purpose Computers (people who used numbers) Slide Rule Analog Computer Key Punch Computer Binary Logic Real Time Operated Computers 1450-1840

6. The Electro-Mechanical Age Telecommunications Voltaic Battery Telegraph Morse Code Telephones and Radios Computing Census Machine Mark 1 Paper Stored Programming 1840-1940 Picture of a 1986 Telephone from Vendsyssel Historiske Museum in Hjørring , Denmark © 2004 by Tomasz Sienicki

7. Information Age Electronic Vacuum Tubes Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer Manchester Mark 1 First Computer for Commercial Use 1840-Present

8. Computer Generations First Generation (1951-1958) Main Logic Elements Externally Stored Information Machine and Assembly Language Compilers Second Generation (1959-1963) Transistors Semi-Conductors High-Level Programming Fortran/Cobol Third Generation (1964-1978 ) Integrated Circuits Magnetic Tape and Disk Operating Systems BASIC Fourth Generation (1979-) Large Scale Circuits Central Processing Units Apple II/Apple Mac IBM/MS-DOS/GUI MS Windows

9. Pioneers in Information Technology John Mauchly J. Prosper Eckert John Von Neumann Blaise Pascal William Oughtred Gottfried von Leibniz Charles Babbage Augusta Ada Byron Alexander Graham Bell Herman Hollerith Howard Aiken Max Newman Maurice Wilkes Steven Wozniak Steven Jobs Bill Gates