BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
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Steve Jobs
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Alan Turing
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Charles Babbage
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Tim Berners-Lee
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Detailed explanation-1: -Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS (/ˈtjʊərɪŋ/; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist.
Detailed explanation-2: -Detail of a Turing Bombe machine in Bletchley Park Museum in Bletchley, central England. The device, the brainchild of Alan Turning, was instrumental in cracking the German code during World War II.
Detailed explanation-3: -A new Hollywood movie tells the story of Alan Turing, who cracked the German military’s secret codes by building the world’s first computer. If you’ve never heard of Alan Turing, the British mathmatician and genius who helped bring an end to World War II by cracking German military codes, you’re not alone.
Detailed explanation-4: -After the war the British codebreakers found out that the code machine was the Lorenz SZ42. All the secret Colossus computers were taken to pieces, so that no one would find out about them. The designs were destroyed.
Detailed explanation-5: -Cracking the code While there, Turing built a device known as the Bombe. This machine was able to use logic to decipher the encrypted messages produced by the Enigma. However, it was human understanding that enabled the real breakthroughs.