Please watch the Movie \"Modern Marvels The Creation of the Computer\" DESCRIBE

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Please watch the Movie "Modern Marvels The Creation of the Computer" DESCRIBE at least 3 social factors (events and needs) that played a role development of the computer. Who was Charles Babbage? What was meant by "It will take a Colossus to solve the Enigma ? " What did Mauchly and Eckert build for y2 million dollars and what were the problems? What event in US history proved the power and utility of computers (hint 0 What invention led to the miniaturization of computers? Who were Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs? b) Who was John Von Neumann? i) Who was Herman Hollerith? Who was considered the first

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a)   I don't know how far back your going, so this answer may be off the wall

       1801-industrial revolution-brought rise to the idea of punched cards and programmed devices with the Jacquard Loom -simplified production of fabric

     1820's -Charles Babbage - Difference Engine - to calculate correct navigation tables

     1890 United States Census, the fact that the previous census took so long to correlate the results, they needed some way to correlate the 1890 census in less than 4 years- Herman Hollerith - Hollerith Tabulating Machine

World War II . some way to get accurate missle trajectories -led to Mark I

b) designed the difference engine, and analytic engine see question A. the difference engine was a steam powered "computer". it had a mill and a store, which are equivalent to modern day CPU and memory. he never built it, but it was built in 1991, and it worked

c) The Germans had a "computer" (machine) names Enigma that created codes that Germany was using during WWII. The British built a "computer" that they called Colossus to break these codes

d) They built the Eniac. the first totally digital computer. 1 major problem was it's memory was vacuum tubes, which would constantly burn out. it was programmed using patch cords, which was slow and tedious

e) not having the text your using, or the hint the book is giving. I can only guess that the answer is the computer predicing that Eisenhower would crush front runner Adlai Stevenson in the 1952 Presidential elections

f) first miniaturization was transistors, then integrated circuits and finally printed circuits. Each of these led to a new, smaller generation of computers

g) Wozniack, Jobs--founders of Apple

h) Came up with the idea of a stored program while working with Eckert and Macaulay on the EDVAC. this is the modern day, fetch-execute cycle

i) Hollerith- see A 1890 census

j) Ada Byron Lovelace, friend of Charles Babbage, daughter of Lord Byron the poet. came up with the idea of programming, for the difference engine

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