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© 1. CERN PhotoLab — Console connected to CDC 3100 computer / 2. unknown — Computer lesson in kindergarten, Šiauliai (1988) / 3. Computer History Museum — Nimrod on display at the Festival of Britain (1951) / 4. Chilton Computing Photographs — Atlas Computer and Rutherford Appleton Laboratories / AutoCAD before AutoCAD / 5. unknown — Mary Kenneth Keller was an American Catholic religious sister, educator and pioneer in computer science, the first american woman to receive a PhD in Computer Science / 6. Joseph C. Towler, Jr. — Mary Allen Wilkes / 7. The Atlantic — A SAGE operator at a Situation Display Console holding a light gun (IBM) / 8. Lawrence A. Tipton/SMECC — Pin-up program running on an SD Console / 9. unknown — Business Efficiency Exhibition (1971) / 10. Getty Images — Lt Grace Hopper using a new calculating machine invented by Howard Aiken for the US Navy's use during World War Two / 11. Ada Lovelace — Diagram of an algorithm for the Analytical Engine for the computation of Bernoulli numbers, from Sketch of The Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage by Luigi Menabrea with notes / 12. U.S. Naval Historical Center Online Library Photograph NH — “Bug” Log discovered by Grace Hopper in the Harvard Mark II, also known as the Aiken Relay Calculator.
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Historically, it is known that Ada Lovelace, born in 1815, worked alongside Charles Babbage on a mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. Lovelace wrote the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine, making her the world’s first computer programmer. In turn, the concept of cloud computing has roots dating back to the 1950s. Back then, large-scale mainframe computers were shared among multiple users via terminal access, similar to how resources are shared in modern cloud computing. This early form of “time-sharing” allowed multiple users to access a single computer simultaneously, providing a model for the shared resources and remote access characteristic of cloud computing today.
Amusingly, the term “bug” to describe a computer glitch originated in 1947 with the Harvard Mark II electromechanical computer. When operators found a malfunction, they traced it to a moth stuck in one of the relays. They removed the moth and taped it into their logbook with the annotation, “First actual case of bug being found”. This incident led to the use of the term “bug” to describe any flaw or glitch in a computer system, and the practice of “debugging” to remove such issues became widespread in the computing industry.
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