Lecture 2 Overview

Introduction to computers

  1. The birth of the ENIAC, the development of modern computers and transistors.
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  2. Then we look at how computers changed from being big calculating machines to being information processing machines.
    Here are the notes.
  3. We also looked at the AxelWarp program. If you search google for AxelWarp, you will find this. If you want the actual program, you can search for AxelWarp.java and should be able to locate it.

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A definition of a computer.