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Tim Berners Lee was born in London in 1955. He is a computer programmer who wrote the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and also made a scheme for locating documents. Berners Lee made the World Wide Web browser. He is a senior research scientist at MIT and was the first holder of the 3Com Founders Chair.

The original was disassembled when Iowa state college decided to put classrooms in the basement.
A working replica was made and is currently in the Durham Center for Computation and Communication at Iowa State University.
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References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atanasoff%E2%80%93Berry_Computer

A working replica was made and is currently in the Durham Center for Computation and Communication at Iowa State University.
Ruled to be the first computer by the U.S. District court.
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Resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atanasoff%E2%80%93Berry_Computer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Vincent_Atanasoff
http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/ABC/Biographies.html

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Born: october 4, 1903
Died: June 15, 1995 (stroke)
After graduating from the University of Florida in 1925, he took a job teaching a fellowship at Iowa State college for the fields of engineering and science.
In 1926, he received his Master's degree in mathematics.
He had three children with his wife Lura meeks, that he met at the Dixie Club at Iowa State College.
When Workd War II started, the work on the ABC was halted and Atanasoff took a defense-related position for the U.S. Naval Ordinance.
While working for the government, Iowa State College dismantled the machine without notifying Berry or Atanasoff and only few parts remained.
He divorced his wife in 1949 and married an Iowan Alice Crosby who had also been working in Washington during the war years.
He has received numerous awards and honors for his work.

References:
http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/ABC/Biographies.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Vincent_Atanasoff

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James Gosling is a software and also known as father of java programming language. Behind java, he created the programming language which brought the internet to life and can be found from smart cards to cellphones. He invented this java programming and other programs invented in 1994. Java was originally named as oak and was developed as a part of Green Project at the sun company. He has been involved in distributed computing at sun and his first project was the Network Extensible Windows System. Before joining sun, he built a multiprocessor Unix operating system, the original andrew window system and tool kit, and several compilers and mail systems. He also did the original design of java and implemented its virtual machine. He was elected by the United States National Academy of Engineering for this achievement. He had also made several software systems such as news and gosling emacs. He is still well-known by our country.
http://www.javajazzup.com/issue4/page24.shtml

It was the first general purpose electronic computer. This project was done in 1946, and it was famous by name "Giant Brain". "John Mauchly" and "John Presper Eckert" developed this giant electronic base computer.
The purpose was to build a computer that can calculate artillery firing tables, the setting that uses for different weapons under different condition for target accuracy; so this project was sponsored by an American Military.
The gates we encountered in class, which were "AND" gate and "OR" gate, were used in ENIAC for calculations.
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Ruled to be the first computer by the U.S. District court.
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ResourcesResources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atanasoff%E2%80%93Berry_Computer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Vincent_Atanasoff
http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/ABC/Biographies.html

Ruled to be the first computer by the U.S. District court.
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