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Is this further revised since your peer review in class last Sat?  Draft 2 was for this coming Sat Aug 1st after you got feedback from a fellow student(s) and your Professor.  Anyway, my comments are in the file below

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04-Machine That Changed the World-Cara T

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Who are the most important individuals in the development of the computer? The development of computers is an important technical and social achievement due to how it has completely changed the way humans relate to each other, society functions as a whole, advancement in medicine, and has revolutionized the world and capabilities.

Part I: Great Brains

Charles Babbage

The Difference Engine (1820’s) was the first of a series of precursors to the computer. Babbage was considerably ahead of his time by about 70 years from the adjacent possible. Babbage’s calculation machine was never fully completed in his lifetime due to lack of funding and support, but was a valuable precursor to what was to come. The introduction of Babbage’s unique ideas led to raising the question, what if? The, what if, question sparked imagination and thought in a direction that hadn’t been publicly considered or proposed before. By simply raising the question paved the way for all the other advancements and directions computer development and advancement would take and evolve from.

In conclusion, Babbage is the most important figure for Part I due to raising the question about the possibility of a mechanical device able to complete tedious and sometimes impossible tasks with far more accuracy and timely than possible for humans. Alan Turing, Eckert and Mauchly, Jobs and Wozniak may never have considered such machines. Advancements may never have been realized without that innovative ideas proposed by Charles Babbage in the 1820’s. All progress began simply with an idea.

Part II: Inventing the Future

Eckert and Mauchly

Eckert and Mauchly built Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) in the 1940’s at the University of Pennsylvania Moore school of Electrical Engineering that performed tasks that could be described in symbols. Eckert and Mauchly then left the University for the Census Bureau where they began work on an advanced Universal Automatic Computer (UNIVAC). The idea of breaking the computer internal parts down into sections in the event of equipment failure and maintenance was revolutionary. Having the ability to replace cards and the backups readily available was ingenious and efficient.

Through Their various achievements and innovative contributions to the technology field I believe Eckert and Mauchly are the most influential and noteworthy individuals of The Machine That Changed the World: Part II: Inventing the Future.

Part III: The Paperback Computer

Douglas Engelbart

Engelbart is the most noteworthy individual from the middle to the latter half of the twentieth century. Through Engelbart’s vision of creating computer and human interactions, he began laying the foundation of future technology breakthroughs creating numerous opportunities in the adjacent possible. He streamlined the computer control panel into a keyboard or sorts with mouse and coding sections.  He laid the groundwork for hypertext which was ultimately developed and refined by others.  His vision of a personal computer seemed completely absurd, but it posed the question, “What if”.

Though Engelbart’s inventions and vision was not user friendly or intuitive, He created a challenge to make it and make it better. For this, Douglas Engelbart is the most influential character of The Machine That Changed the World: Part III: Inventing the Future.

 

In conclusion, what makes the individuals listed above so important isn’t their fame or if their inventions were ever successfully completed. The importance of the contributions of the individuals is who had the largest impact on the adjacent possible, leading future generations to improve and refine their ideas.

 

 

 

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