Computer science history + AI intelligence history

Abacus

An early mechanical calculating tool used for basic arithmetic around 2400 BCE

Antikythera Mechanism

An ancient Greek analog computer used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses

Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwaeizmi

Developed systematic procedures for solving equations; his name gave us the word "algorithm"

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

formalized modern binary arithmetic and built the stepped reckoner

george boole

created boolean algebra, reducing logical to true/false statements

Charles Babbage

Designed the Difference Engine and Analytical Wngi

Ada Lovelace

wrote an algorithm for the Analytical Engine and became know as the first computer programmer

Herman Hollerith

invented a punched card machine to process the 1890 US census

Alan Turing

Introduced the Turing Machine, which helped establish the foundation of computer science

Claude Shannon

showed the electrical switches could implement Boolean algebra

ENIAC

the first general-purpose, fully electronic digital computer

John von Neumann

proposed an architecture that stores instructions and data in the same memory

grace hopper

invented the first compiler and helped design COBOL

transistor

Replaced vacuum tubes and allowed electronics to become smaller and faster

intel 4004

the first commercially available single-chip microprocessor

Altair 8800

Helped begin the personal computer revolution

time berners-Lee

invented the World Wide Web, HTML, HTTP, and the first web browser

First CS degree program

cambridge established the first taught postgraduate computing qualification in 1953

first CS department

purdue created the first formal Computer Science department in 1962

ACM curriculum '68

the first standardized computer science curriculum

artificial intelligence

a broad area of computer science; it does not mean only ChatGPT

1943 machine intelligence

early discussion of whether machines could show intelligence

1955 AI mileston

the term "artificial intelligence" was created

AI winter

A period during the 1970s when progress and interest in AI slowed

backpropagation