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 brought to Polytechnic University of Turin where it was fixed and used to run the BASIC programming language .</ li >

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.

In this vein, languages used in computing that have a different goal than expressing computer programs are generically designated computer languages.

A multicast address is a logical identifier for a group of hosts in a computer network, that are available to process datagrams or frames intended to be multicast for a designated network service.

This project became Task 29, and the computer was designated Atlas II.

Many pools and designated bathing areas either have lifeguards, a pool safety camera system for local or remote monitoring, or computer aided drowning detection.

One part ( designated C ) of about six acres ( 24, 000 m² ) contained the IFC ( Integrated Fire Control ) radar systems to detect incoming targets ( acquisition and target tracking ) and direct the missiles ( missile tracking ), along with the computer systems to plot and direct the intercept.

The TRW-130 computer was introduced in 1961, and designated the AN / UYK-1 by the US Navy as part of its pre-GPS TRANSIT ( NAVSAT ) satellite-based location system.

The examination of Lee's computer determined that he had backed up his work files, which were restricted though not classified, onto tapes, and had also transferred these files from a system used for processing classified data onto another, also secure, system designated for unclassified data.

The term continues to be used in the computer industry to describe fonts that have symbols and shapes in the positions designated for alphabetical or numeric characters.

When executed, the computer generates an integer value of 13, but because the program has not explicitly designated where in the computer this 13 is stored, the expression is an rvalue.

Especially argued aggressively he was the founded in Zurich Association for the Advancement of psychological knowledge of human nature, under the title The fascism of the New Left, a " ökofaschistische dictatorship " Bahro designated as the destination computer.

A personal firewall will usually protect only the computer on which it is installed, as compared to a conventional firewall which is normally installed on a designated interface between two or more networks, such as a router or proxy server.

Bentley Hall also houses a state-of-the-art interactive multimedia computer laboratory and is a designated National Science Foundation research facility.

The legacy was designated for the support of the study of physics, computer science, information systems and religious philosophy.

In computer networking, MILNET ( Military Network ) was the name given to the part of the ARPANET internetwork designated for unclassified United States Department of Defense traffic.

These initial prototype units, designated Land Warrior v0. 6, were built around a PC / 104 computer platform running Microsoft Windows.

One player would act as the host of the game ( rather than a designated third party server ) and all others would connect to the host's one computer over a specified port.

This new bomb computer was revolutionary in that the release command for the bomb was given by the computer, not the pilot ; the pilot designated the target using the radar or other targeting system, then " consented " to release the weapon, and the computer then did so at a calculated " release point " some seconds later.

A compose key, available on some computer keyboards, is a special kind of modifier key designated to signal the software to interpret the following ( usually two ) keystrokes as a combination in order to produce a character not found directly on the keyboard.

Cursor movement keys or arrow keys are buttons on a computer keyboard that are either programmed or designated to move the cursor in a specified direction.

The term " cursor movement key " is distinct from " arrow key " in that the former term may refer to any of various keys on a computer keyboard designated for cursor movement, whereas " arrow keys " generally refers to one of four specific keys, typically marked with arrows.

The IEEE focuses more on hardware and standardization issues than theoretical computer science, but there is considerable overlap with ACM's agenda.

In the April – June, 2008, issue of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, computer scientists describe a potential new way to combat internet worms.

A computer architecture that used the 6U-220 Eurocard format was Multibus-II which was IEEE 1296.

Floating-point representation, in particular the standard IEEE format, is by far the most common way of representing an approximation to real numbers in computers because it is efficiently handled in most large computer processors.

The IEEE has standardized the computer representation for binary floating-point numbers in IEEE 754 ( aka.

IEEE 802. 11 is a set of standards for implementing wireless local area network ( WLAN ) computer communication in the 2. 4, 3. 6 and 5 GHz frequency bands.

IEEE 802. 2 is the name given to a subsection of the IEEE 802 standard that describes a software component of a computer network.

Students from computer science faculty started few times in CSIDC computer systems projecting world championships organised by IEEE Computer Society and ImagineCup ( Microsoft ).

IEEE produces 30 % of the world's literature in the electrical and electronics engineering and computer science fields, publishing well over 100 peer-reviewed journals.

Most IEEE members are electrical and electronics engineers, but the organization's wide scope of interests has attracted people in other disciplines as well ( e. g., computer science, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, biology, physics, and mathematics ).

* IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award ( for information processing systems in computer science )

* Eta Kappa Nu, the electrical and computer engineering honor society of the IEEE

In computer networking, Gigabit Ethernet ( GbE or 1 GigE ) is a term describing various technologies for transmitting Ethernet frames at a rate of a gigabit per second ( 1, 000, 000, 000 bits per second ), as defined by the IEEE 802. 3-2008 standard.

Had IEEE 1394 ( also known as FireWire ) been widely available at the time, a computer with both A. b and FireWire would have been an attractive solution for all speed ranges.

* Logical Link Control, in computer networking, a sublayer of the OSI Data Link Layer in the IEEE 802 family of standards

VMEbus is a computer bus standard, originally developed for the Motorola 68000 line of CPUs, but later widely used for many applications and standardized by the IEC as ANSI / IEEE 1014-1987.

Futurebus ( IEEE 896 ) is a computer bus standard, intended to replace all local bus connections in a computer, including the CPU, memory, plug-in cards and even, to some extent, LAN links between machines.

" In 2006, he was awarded with the IEEE John von Neumann Medal for pioneering contributions to the field of computer graphics in modeling, animation and rendering.

* 1998: IEEE Medal of Honor for " creation of the SPICE Program, universally used for the computer aided design of circuits.

In computer programming, an attempt to divide a floating point number by zero will by default lead to positive or negative infinity by the IEEE 754 floating point standard.