Computing machines can be dated back to the advent of the abacus, a wooden rack holding two horizontal wires with beads strung across them. Several different types of arithmetic operations could be performed when these beads were manipulated. Another early calculator, later called Napier's Bones, ...
Effect of Computer Usage to the Academic Performance of the Selected Senior Students INTRODUCTION Video games have come a long way since today's adults sat down at a computer to play Pong or Donkey Kong. The newest-generation gaming consoles are as powerful as personal computers, and can accompl...
The idea still exists today - the history of recent artificial intelligence is full with stories of systems that seek to explain logic inside computers.4 From 1800 on, the philosophy of reason picked up speed. ... He conceived an abstract computing machine consisting of a limitless memory and a scanner that moves back and forth through the memory, symbol by symbol, reading what it finds and writing further symbols. ...
