A Chronology of Computing at Columbia University

Re:A Chronology of Computing at Columbia University by okaya on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @03:17PM (#9814442)

Some interesting parts:

Sep 1947: ACM first meeting

Jan 1948: John von Neumann's thoughts on high-level languages(FORTRAN)

Oct 1957: Students' reaction to computerized registration

1 Oct 1969: First ARPANET transmission

1 May 1978: First spam email

12 Aug 1981: 16-bit IBM PC

1985-1989: Supercomputers made from Radio Shack parts

1993: The era of the search engine begins

1994-95: Windows and the Web take over. The diverse, rich, idiosyncratic history of computing stops here

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Re:A Chronology of Computing at Columbia University by bgilroy26 on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @03:37PM (#9814572)

I was very surprised to read of John Vincent Atanasoff out at Iowa State this morning. He had a tremendous impact and I hadn't ever heard of him.

http://www.columbia.edu/~td2177/JVAtanasoff/JVAtanasoff.html

A US District Judge ruled in the 70s that the ENIAC was largely derivative of the computer Atanasoff had developed with his student Clifford Berry. Berry would continue on to work for Remington Rand and Burroughs on the BatComputer

http://tjsawyer.com/B205Home.htm

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Re:A Chronology of Computing at Columbia University by agumonkey on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @06:14PM (#9815612)

Tiny web-archived link http://web.archive.org/web/20130420132055/http://www.scl.ame...

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