Charles Babbage

Charles Babbage

1. Analytical Engine

   • Ada Lovelace
     • Is the first one to publish algorithms which can be executed by an analytical machine
   • Vannevar Bush
     • Envisioned Memex device in which one can store a lot of information in huge amount
     • Memex
     • Human Augmentation
       • J.C.R. Licklider
         • Had visions of and conceptualized man-computer symbiosis
       • Ivan Sutherland
         • Sketchpad
           • Designed device which has stylus based interaction
       • Douglas Engelbart
         • Augmentation Research Center
           • NLS has many features of modern computing
           • oN-Line System a.k.a NLS
           • Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
             • Alan Kay
               • Smalltalk
                 • A programming language and environment
               • Alto
                 • Prototype with the first OS based on GUI and many more modern features and Smalltalk
                 • Steve Jobs
                   • Apple
                     • Lisa
                     • Macintosh computers
                       • Power Point
                       • Driven many companies like Microsoft, Google etc to invest more in user interfaces engineering

2. Gave idea of a machine which works more quickly and accurately than humans