There was only one possible answer, but Jack's horrified mind refused to believe it until he had fed the radar plots of the skiff's course into the computer.

It is worth mentioning that the Nepōhualtzintzin amounted to the rank from 10 to the 18 in floating point, which calculated stellar as well as infinitesimal amounts with absolute precision, meant that no round off was allowed, when translated into modern computer arithmetic.

Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS ( ; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954 ), was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist.

He was highly influential in the development of computer science, giving a formalisation of the concepts of " algorithm " and " computation " with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer.

The Analytical Engine was a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician Charles Babbage.

It was first described in 1837 as the successor to Babbage's Difference Engine, a design for a mechanical computer.

The Apple I's built-in computer terminal circuitry was distinctive.

As Wozniak was the only person who could answer most customer support questions about the computer, the company offered Apple I owners discounts and trade-ins for Apple IIs to persuade them to return their computers, contributing to their scarcity.

The high price was likely due to the rare documents and packaging offered in the sale in addition to the computer, including the original packaging ( with the return label showing Steve Jobs ' parents ' address, the original Apple Computer Inc ' headquarters ' being their garage ), a personally typed and signed letter from Jobs ( answering technical questions about the computer ), and the original invoice showing ' Steven ' as the salesman.

The computer was designated an IEEE Milestone in 1990.

Atanasoff and Clifford Berry's computer work was not widely known until it was rediscovered in the 1960s, amidst conflicting claims about the first instance of an electronic computer.

At that time, the ENIAC was considered to be the first computer in the modern sense, but in 1973 a U. S. District Court invalidated the ENIAC patent and concluded that the ENIAC inventors had derived the subject matter of the electronic digital computer from Atanasoff ( see Patent dispute ).

It was not a Turing complete computer, which distinguishes it from more general machines, like contemporary Konrad Zuse's Z3 ( 1941 ), or later machines like the 1946 ENIAC, 1949 EDVAC, the University of Manchester designs, or Alan Turing's post-War designs at NPL and elsewhere.

The machine was, however, the first to implement three critical ideas that are still part of every modern computer:

George W. Snedecor, the head of Iowa State's Statistics Department, was very likely the first user of an electronic digital computer to solve real world mathematics problems.

ALGOL ( short for ALGOrithmic Language ) is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in the mid 1950s which greatly influenced many other languages and was the standard method for algorithm description used by the ACM, in textbooks, and academic works for the next 30 years and more.

The first model was launched in 1985 as a high-end home computer and became popular for its graphical, audio and multi-tasking abilities.

It did so by buying a small startup company called Amiga Corporation in August 1984, for $ 25 million ($ 12. 8 million in cash & 550, 000 in common shares ) which became a subsidiary of Commodore, called Commodore-Amiga, Inc. Commodore brought this new 32-bit computer design ( initially codenamed " Lorraine ", later dubbed the Amiga 1000 ) to market in the fall of 1985 for US $ 1295.

His work, as important as it was in its own right, was a part of a continuum of progress in communications and electronics that since his time has brought forward color television, the personal computer, the Internet, cable and satellite radio and TV, personal mobile phones, audio, video and computing, digital stereo radio on both the medium wave and VHF-FM bands, and digital high definition television on VHF, UHF, cable and satellite.

The advent of the personal computer has brought a moderate solution to this in the form of online chat programs.

Many areas of mathematics and computer science have been brought to bear on the problem, including elliptic curves, algebraic number theory, and quantum computing.

After developing the R2000 and R3000 microprocessors, a management change brought along the larger dreams of being a computer vendor.

Later on, those systems running TOPS-20 ( on the KL10 PDP-10 processors ) were labeled DECSYSTEM-20 ( the block capitals being the result of a lawsuit brought against DEC by Singer, which once made a computer called " system-10 ").

The Sinclair ZX80 is a home computer brought to market in 1980 by Science of Cambridge Ltd. ( later to be better known as Sinclair Research ).

The Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, greatly expanded our understanding of the Universe and brought brilliant images to TV and computer screens around the world.

" Fans objecting to the comment brought the station's computer system to a standstill with thousands of emails of complaint.

Enron begins to make plans to have the computer processing brought back into house so they have more control.

Another is VTech's successful clones of the Apple II ROMs for the Laser 128, the only computer model, among dozens of Apple II compatibles, which survived litigation brought by Apple Computer.

Between 1954 and 1973, Atanasoff was a witness in the legal actions brought by various parties to invalidate electronic computing patents issued to John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, which were owned by computer manufacturer Sperry Rand.

At the same time, animator Steven Lisberger brought to the studio a concept about a computer programmer who is launched into a computerized world.

The Global Education Initiative ( GEI ), launched during the Annual Meeting in 2003, brought together international IT companies and governments in Jordan, Egypt and India which has resulted in new personal computer hardware in the classrooms and more local teachers trained in e-learning.

Another use that was typical before the era of personal computers ( which brought about word processing and computer graphics ) was to hold pieces of text and art that had been clipped with scissors from one sheet of paper to be pasted with paste onto another sheet.

It brought computing power to more people, not only through more convenient physical size but also through broadening the computer vendor field.

The 4004 was only capable of 60, 000 instructions per second, but its successors, the Intel 8008, 8080 ( used in many computers using the CP / M operating system ), and the 8086 / 8088 family ( the IBM personal computer ( PC ) and compatibles use processors still backwards-compatible with the 8086 ) brought ever-growing speed and power to the computers.

He brought multitasking to personal computers in 1985 with the creation of the Amiga Computer operating system kernel, and he is currently the designer of the REBOL computer language as well as the CTO of REBOL Technologies.

Understanding the need for clear communication and debate, Mr. Michael Lang of the California State University at San Diego and Dr. William Hamilton of Hamilton Research Ltd. brought together, under the auspices of the American Academy of Underwater Sciences a diverse group that included most of the dive computer designers and manufacturers, some of the best known hyperbaric medicine theorists and practitioners, representatives from the recreational diving agencies, the cave diving community and the scientific diving community.

This was almost immediately brought up on the new VAX-11 / 780 computer using a dialect of Maclisp, Franz Lisp, written by Fateman's group.

A variety of techniques were used for the production of the video: traditional 2-D cel animation by Spümcø and Colorkey Productions ; 3-D computer animation supervised by Charlie Gibson at Rhythm & Hues ; real-time motion-capture animation by House of Moves ; and blue screen mattes brought in live-action into the mix.

The B-29 Superfortress, introduced later in the war brought the innovation of four remotely operated twin-gun turrets on its fuselage, controlled through an analog computer sighting system sighted from any of a trio of hemispherical clear-glazed stations, with only the rear tail gunner position on the plane directly manned by a crewmember.

It was brought to the attention of the Workers ' League's Central Committee that Fields ' uncle had worked for the CIA's computer division, and it criticized the fact that neither Fields nor Wohlforth had revealed that to the League.

Although it was not yet a computer for the general public, the Altair brought that dream a lot closer.