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- Federal Radio Commission
- to license radio stations and assign frequencies. Rationale for regulation was the scarcity of available frequencies.
- IBM
- reverse engineer clones
- ENIAC
- It was designed and built to calculate artillery firing tables for the U.S. Army's Ballistics Research Laboratory and was used to calculate problems for H-bomb development.
- Charles Babbage
- 1791-1871 / 1833 design for a difference engine // Eccentric, English mathematician who is considered to have conceptualized the modern computer a century before technology let it be built. He conceptualized the Difference Engine, a machine that would have computed lengthy scientific tables, but money, labor, and health problems prevented its completion. The Analytical Engine, a more ambitious plan, would have done a wide range of calculating tasks. With it, Babbage recognized the need for an input device, memory, a central processing unit, and an output device, and for this he is known as the Father of Computing. (Important people...)
- Gordon Moore (Moore's Law)
- Computing power doubles every 12 - 18 months. (From Whatis.com) The pace of microchip technology change is such that the amount of data storage that a microchip can hold doubles every year or at least every 18 months.
- Communications Act of 1996
- One important reason for the trend towards deregulation was the increasing competition between media and the erosion of the Òscarcity rationale.Ó The Communications Act of 1996 essentially deregulated media marketplace It has led to many mergers, reduced distinctions between common carriers and mass media, required V-Chip to filter violent programming in all new TV sets. The Communications Decency Act was part of this and was struck down, but the rest of this law was put in place.
- Transistor
- This makes computers much smaller and easier to manage
- Herman Hollerith
- developed punchcards & electric tabulating for the 1890 census. The effort was the beginning of IBM.
- Edward R. Murrow
- American Journalist advertisement for cigarettes and cigars banned on television
- original Xerox PARC vision for the PC (3 things)
- GUI and mouse, networking thru internet, Object Oriented Programming
- Grace Hopper
- American computer specialist with US Navy, developed COBOL language / naval research