After developmental basis had reached a strong foundational level, for example the development of boolean and binary mathematics and some level of mechanical development that could perform some computations, it was then that the hardware and logic could be truly focused on and developed into computers and the computer language of logic.
During the 1940's, at the time of World War II, need for a electronical computational computer was immensely spurred by complex equations that concerned things like ballistic missile paths. Use of transmitting information and directions were also protected by encryption which militaries wanted to use to protect their transmissions and crack other militaries'.
In 1951 the first concept compiler, or an executable program which runs code, was created by Grace Murray Hopper. The compiler is an integral part of writing and running code. And around the same time was the development of the Turing Test by Alexander Turing which was one of the first attempts at creating an artificial intelligence.
In 1960, the term "Computer Science" was created by George Forsythe , a numerical analyst. Since then, computers and computer science has continued to grow in leaps and bounds year by year like clockwork.
Alexander Turing
https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~shallit/Courses/134/history.html
Hey Josh,
ReplyDeleteGreat job citing the University of Waterloo. It really adds to your thoughts. However, your article wasn't very long or in-depth. It's fairly interesting, but next time try to flesh out how impactful the contributions by the people you mentioned were. That might be able to solicit more feedback.
Hi Josh, I find it fascinating how much I found out about computer science from reading your post. I had no idea that it was used during WW II, though I new about Alex Turing. I wonder what computer science was called before it was coined in 1960s, Any guesses?
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to your next post!