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CGI Historical Timeline
The study of the history of CGI (computer generated imagery) is an important part of our overall educational experience, not necessarily to build on the historical preced... |
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Invention of Napier's Bones
Napier's bones are an abacus invented by John Napier for calculation of products and quotients of numbers. Also called Rabdologia. Napier published his invention of t... |
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Charles Babbage, Invention Computer
Charles Babbage was an English mathematician, analytical philosopher, mechanical engineer and (proto-) computer scientist who originated the idea of a programmable comput... |
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Cyrus Field, 1st Atlantic Cable - 1858
Cyrus West Field was an American businessman and financier who led the Atlantic Telegraph Company, the company that successfully laid the first telegraph cable across the... |
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Bell, Inventor of the Telephone -1876
Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish scientist and inventor who emigrated to Canada. Today, Bell is widely considered as one of the foremost developers of the telephone,... |
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Paul Otlet, Forgotten Forefather
Who was Paul Otlet? Meet the forgotten forefather of information architecture. A bibliographer, pacifist and entrepreneur, Otlet had in his heyday been feted as a great... |
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Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of The Web
In 1989, he proposed a global hypertext project, to be known as the World Wide Web. Based on the earlier "Enquire" work, it was designed to allow people to work together... |
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Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux
The story of Linux is one of the great fables of computing yet it begins as recently as 1991. That was when Linus Torvalds, a 21-year-old student at Helsinki University,... |
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Quantum Teleportation, Bennett
In 1993 an international group of six scientists, including IBM Fellow Charles H. Bennett, confirmed the intuitions of the majority of science fiction writers by showing... |
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