The search for a philosophical language ( before the actual computer or machine – it was a theory for a global common language.) If people could construct a logical language they could communicate with machines.
Binary which was the medium for the logical language ,should be “Boolean”.
accredited to Leibniz but was around earlier in eastern parts.
Computing started with calculators. Babbage’s machine [the “analytical engine”] was before the computer and could answer any mathematical question asked via punch cards.
Important points and people.
- Ada King (Countess of Lovelace)who is arguably the first programmer,
- Alan Turning, the Jimmi Hendrix of computing, came up with the first simple computer as a thought exercise and started off artificial intelligence.
- Konrad Zuse, engineer of computers, came up with the internet.
- Norbert Wiener- cybernetics communication between machines and people and machine and machines. He was also the first human machine interaction designer.
- Ivan Sutherland: first CAD program. The user interface was remarkable and focused on closer interaction than the mouse. It broke down more of the barrier between computer and human.
Steve Wozniak –apple I
Zoetrope: first animation
Phantasmagoria: pre-cinema projection technique
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy- electronic artist
Thomas Wilfred –kinetic art
John Cage
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