PAUL ALLEN

Carlos

Introduction to
Computers

Computers were at first to big

that took up entire rooms now
they are smaller than your
hand. They are much cheaper
now you can get one for all
your family.

CHARLES BABBAGE (17911871)

Diplomacy was not Babbage's forte and his social and
professional personas were at war. Proud and principled, he was
capable of incontinent savagery in his public attacks on the
scientific establishment, often beyond ordinary sensibility. He
offended many whose support he needed behaving sometimes
as though being right entitled him to be rude. The title of the first
biography on his life was called 'Irascible Genius: A Life of
Charles Babbage, Inventor'. The twin characteristics of irascibility
and genius remain the defining signatures of his historical
portrait.

FIRST GENERATION
1. Vacuum Tubes
1. Used for circuitry
2. Uses magnetic drums for memory
3. Took up entire rooms
4. Heat caused malfunctions
5. UNIVAC and ENIAC are some examples

SECOND GENERATION
1. Transistors
1. Computers were smaller and faster
2. Relied on punched cards fro input
3. Relied on printouts fro output
4. Used symbolic languages
5. Used COBOL and FORTRAN

THIRD GENERATION
1. Integrated circuits
1. Transistors into silicon chips
2. Keyboards and monitors
3. Had an operating system
4. Smaller and cheaper
5. Had semi-conductors

FOURTH GENERATION
1. Microprocessors
1. Thousands integrated circuits in one chip
2. Could fit in the palm of your hand
3. Many products used microprocessors
4. Formed networks
5. Use of mouse and handheld device

FIFTH GENERATION
1. Artificial intelligence
1. Based on artificial language
2. Voice recognition
3. Parallel processing
4. Nanotechnology
5. Natural language

PAUL ALLEN
As boys, Paul Allen and Bill Gates became friends, attending the same Seattle high school. As young
men, they became near-billionaires, then multi-billionaires after co-founding Microsoft in 1975. Eight
years later, Allen left Microsoft after he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease. He beat the disease and
started living large, buying mega yachts known to land at places like Cannes and the Sochi
Olympics. He plays guitar in a rock band called the Underthinkers and owns an aircraft company aiming
to put people into space. He also has three professional sports franchises. He bought the first one, the
Portland Trail Blazers basketball team, for $70 million in 1988. Local politicians talked him into buying
the Seattle Seahawks football team for $288 million in 1997. They were just trying to keep the team from
moving, but it turned out to be a great investment. The Seahawks are now worth $1.3 billion, according
to FORBES, coming off of two straight Super Bowl appearances. Plus he has an interest in the Seattle
Sounders, the most valuable Major League Soccer team in America; the team is worth $175 million. A
two-time cancer survivor, he has given away more than $1.5 billion, including $500 million to his Allen
Institute for Brain Science, which studies the brain's connections with health and disease.

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