1. IT Basics 1

2. Contents

3. Bibliography

4. Laboratory contents

5. Short history of the computers

6. The abacus: the first “Automatic Computer”

7. Pioneers - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

8. Pioneers - Charles Babbage (1791-1871)

9. “Difference Engine”

10. Claude Shannon

11. Howard Aiken and IBM Harvard Mark I computer

12. William Mauchly, J. Presper Eckert - ENIAC - Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer

13. ENIAC

14. The next generations

15. John Von Neumann

16. The first transistor

17. The first integrated circuit

18. 11/28/2018
Moore’ Law
In 1965 Gordon Moore predicted that the number of transistors from a microprocessor will double every interval of aprox.18 months
28-Nov-18

19. The path to the first personal computer (PC)

20. Personal computers

21. Personal computers (cont.)

22. Personal computers (cont.)

23. Personal computers (cont.)

24. Portable computers (laptop) and PDA

25. iPhone!

27. I/O, processing, storage

28. Flynn’s taxonomy – parallel calculus

29. SISD (Single Instruction, Single Data)

30. SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data)

31. MISD (Multiple Instruction, Single Data)

32. MIMD (Multiple Instruction, Multiple Data)