Computers, VIR-ZUS
Have computers replaced dogs as man's best friend? They've certainly become an indispensable part of daily life for most people in our modern society. The first modern computers used analog systems, which were especially useful for solving problems and simulating dynamic systems in real time. By the 1960s, digital computers had largely replaced their analog counterparts. Later there was a similar transition from mainframe computers to personal computers. The advent of personal computers brought computers into the individual consumer's home for the first time. Rapid developments in computer and Internet technology powered an ever-expanding selection of handheld digital devices such as the Palm Pilot, BlackBerry, iPhone, and iPod. Computer chips were increasingly embedded in consumer devices of all sorts, including cars, cameras, kitchen appliances, toys, watches, and much more, reinforcing the interconnected nature of the world in which we now live.
Computers Encyclopedia Articles By Title
virtual reality (VR), the use of computer modeling and simulation that enables a person to interact with an artificial......
von Neumann machine, the basic design of the modern, or classical, computer. The concept was fully articulated......
John von Neumann was a Hungarian-born American mathematician. As an adult, he appended von to his surname; the......
Thomas J. Watson, Jr. was an American business executive who inherited the leadership of International Business......
Web application, computer program stored on a remote server and run by its users via a Web browser. A Web application......
Web script, a computer programming language for adding dynamic capabilities to World Wide Web pages. Web pages......
Whirlwind, the first real-time computer—that is, a computer that can respond seemingly instantly to basic instructions,......
widget, widely used type of Internet-based consumer software, particularly popular on social networking sites,......
Maurice Wilkes was a British computer science pioneer who helped build the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator......
James H. Wilkinson was an English mathematician and winner of the 1970 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in......
Evan Williams is an American computer programmer who, with Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone, founded Twitter, an online......
Sir Frederic Williams was a British electrical engineer who invented the Williams tube store, a cathode-ray-tube......
Niklaus Emil Wirth was a Swiss computer scientist and winner of the 1984 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honor in......
word processor, computer program used to write and revise documents, compose the layout of the text, and preview......
WordPress, content management system (CMS) developed in 2003 by American blogger Matt Mullenweg and British blogger......
workstation, a high-performance computer system that is basically designed for a single user and has advanced graphics......
Steve Wozniak is an American electronics engineer who cofounded, with Steve Jobs, Apple Computer and designed the......
Xbox, video game console system created by the American company Microsoft. The Xbox, Microsoft’s first entry into......
XML, a document formatting language used for some World Wide Web pages. XML began to be developed in the 1990s......
Y2K bug, a problem in the coding of computerized systems that was projected to create havoc in computers and computer......
Andrew Chi-Chih Yao is a Chinese American computer scientist and winner of the 2000 A.M. Turing Award, the highest......
zombie computer, computer or personal computer (PC) connected to the Internet and taken over by a computer worm,......
Zoom, software for video communication over the Internet. The program, developed and sold by the American corporation......
Mark Zuckerberg is an American computer programmer who was cofounder and CEO (2004– ) of Facebook, a social networking......
Zuse computer, any of a series of computers designed and built in Germany during the 1930s and ’40s by the German......