Encyclopedia - Computers

Computers - what makes them click?

Ada Aiken, Howard H(athaway) Alexanderson, Ernst F(rederik) W(erner) ALGOL algorithm algorithms, analysis of AM analog computer Apple Inc. Armstrong, Edwin H(oward) artificial intelligence (AI) ASCII assembly language Atanasoff, John V(incent) Audion automata theory Backus, John W(arner) bandwidth bar code Bardeen, John

Bartholomaeus (Anglicus) BASIC Baudot, (Jean Maurice) Émile Bell, Alexander Graham Berners-Lee, Sir Tim binary code biochip BIOS bit bit-map Boole, George Boolean algebra Brattain, Walter H(ouser) broadband technology Brooks, Rodney Allen browser bug bulletin-board system (BBS) Burroughs, William S(eward) bus

Bush, Vannevar C C++ cable modem cable television cache CAD/CAM calculator cartography CASE Case, Steve cathode-ray tube (CRT) CCD CD-ROM cell(ular) phone cellular automata (CA) CGI chat Church, Alonzo Clark, James H.

client-server architecture COBOL code communications satellite compact disc (CD) compiler computational complexity computational linguistics (CL) computer computer animation computer architecture computer art computer chip computer circuitry computer graphics computer science computer virus computer vision computer-assisted instruction computer-integrated manufacturing

concurrent programming cookie Coolidge, William D(avid) coprocessor CPU Cray, Seymour R(oger) cryptography cybercrime cybernetics data compression data encryption data mining data processing data structure data transmission database database management system (DBMS) de Colmar, Charles Xavier Thomas De Forest, Lee Deep Blue

desktop publishing (DTP) Dewey, Melvil(le Louis Kossuth) digital camera digital certificate digital computer digital-to-analog conversion (DAC) diode DNA computing domain name driver DSL Du Mont, Allen B(alcom) DVD e-mail Eccles , W(illiam) H(enry) Eckert, J(ohn) Presper, Jr. Eckert, Wallace J(ohn) Edison, Thomas Alva electronic banking electronics

Engelbart, Douglas ENIAC EPROM Ethernet expert system fax fibre optics firewall floppy disk flowchart FM font Forrester, Jay Wright FORTRAN fourth-generation language (4GL) Fowler, H(enry) W(atson) FTP Funk, I(saac) K(auffman) fuzzy logic Gates, Bill

geographic information system (GIS) GIF Global Positioning System (GPS) graph theory graphical user interface (GUI) Grove, Andrew S. Hamming, Richard Wesley hard disk hardware Hartree, Douglas R(ayner) Hazeltine, (Louis) Alan Heaviside, Oliver Hertz, Heinrich (Rudolf) Hollerith, Herman Hopper, Grace Murray HTML HTTP hypertext image processing information processing

information retrieval information science integrated circuit (IC) Internet Internet service provider (ISP) IP address ISDN Jacquard, Joseph-Marie Java JavaScript Jobs, Steven Paul Josephson effect Josephson, Brian D(avid) JPEG Kay, Alan Kemeny, John George key, cryptographic Kilburn, Tom Kilby, Jack (St. Clair) Knuth, Donald E(rvin)

Langmuir, Irving Licklider, Joseph Carl Robnett light-emitting diode (LED) Linux liquid crystal display (LCD) LISP local area network (LAN) logic design Lovelace, Ada King, countess of machine language magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) mainframe Mandelbrot, Benoit B. Marconi, Guglielmo markup language Mauchly, John W(illiam) McCarthy, John memory Mercator, Gerardus microcomputer

microphone microprocessor microprogramming MIDI Minsky, Marvin (Lee) modem modulation Monte Carlo method Morse code Morse, Samuel F(inley) B(reese) mouse MP3 MS-DOS multimedia multiplexing multiprocessing multitasking network, computer neural network newsgroup

Noyce, Robert (Norton) numerical control object-oriented programming (OOP) OCR operating system (OS) palm PC Pascal pattern recognition Pentium Perl personal computer (PC) photocell photocopier pixel port printed circuit printer, computer program, computer programming language protocol

quantum computing queuing theory radar RAM relational database RISC robotics Roget, Peter Mark ROM scanner, optical Schickard, Wilhelm scientific visualization SCSI search engine semiconductor server servomechanism SGML Shannon, Claude (Elwood) Shockley, William B(radford)

simulation, computer software solid-state device sonar sound card speech recognition speech synthesis spelling and grammar checkers spreadsheet SQL Steinmetz, Charles Proteus Stibitz, George Robert stored-program concept streaming supercomputer switching theory systems programming T1 TCP/IP telecommunication

telemetry telephone teleprinter television (TV) telex Tesla, Nikola Time Warner Inc. transistor Turing machine Turing test Turing, Alan (Mathison) Unicode Universal Product Code (UPC) UNIX URL USB vacuum tube vCard VCR video card

videodisc videotape virtual reality voice mail Watson, Thomas J(ohn), Sr. Watson-Watt, Sir Robert Alexander Weaver, Warren Web site Wiener, Norbert Wilkes, Maurice V(incent) Windows wireless communications word processing workstation World Wide Web (WWW) Wozniak, Stephen G(ary) xerography XML Y2K bug Zuse, Konrad

Zworykin, Vladimir (Kosma)