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How dynamic is this field?
Didn't Boole start doing this stuff in a previous century?
- Boole, George (1815-64), British mathematician and logician, professor of mathematics at Queen's College (now University College) in Cork, Ireland. Noted for the development of the algebraic system known as Boolean algebra, in which logical propositions are denoted by symbols and subjected to abstract mathematical operations, corresponding to the laws of logic. Boolean algebra is of prime importance to the study of pure mathematics and the design of modern computers. Among his works is An Investigation of the Laws of Thought (1854).
Didn't most new design developments take place earlier this century?
- The rapidly advancing field of electronics led to construction of the first all-electronic computer in 1946 at the University of Pennsylvania by the American engineer John Presper Eckert, Jr. (1919- ) and the American physicist John William Mauchly (1907-80). ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) contained 18,000 vacuum tubes and had a speed of several hundred multiplications per minute. Its program was wired into the processor and had to be manually altered. In 1945, John von Neumann had developed the first stored program computer.
Source: Microsoft Encarta