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Republic of the Philippines

NORTHERN BUKIDNON STATE COLLEGE
(Formerly Northern Bukidnon Community College) R.A.11284
Manolo Fortich, 8703 Bukidnon • 0975-3032951• nbscadmin@nbsc.ph

GENERAL EDUCATION CURRICULUM

CCS 5: Living in the IT Era
First Semester of A.Y. 2022-2023

SETTING APPLICATION 1:

NAME: Jesalyn A. Requieron

NAME: Shantal Marie E. Galagar

SECTION: CCS 5 (BA74)

OBJECTIVE: Be familiar with the names of different developers on the history of computers.
INSTRUCTION: Search the following developers and compile their information following the
format given below.

Developer – Provide a one-sentence description.

Contribution/Invention – Provide a short description of their major
contribution or invention in the history of computer.
Photo Attachment – Attached a photo of the developer and their
Developers in the History of Computers

HISTORY OF COMPUTERS

DEVELOPER (1pt) INVENTION (1pt) PHOTO ATTACHMENT

(1pt)

Johanne Gutenberg The printing press,

Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum invented by German

Gutenberg was a German inventor, goldsmith Johann
printer, publisher, and goldsmith who Gutenberg in 1448, has
introduced printing to Europe with his been called one of the
mechanical movable-type printing most important
press.
inventions in the history
of humankind.

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William Oughtred William Oughtred,

William Oughtred, also Owtred, English mathematician

Uhtred, etc., was an English and Anglican minister
mathematician and Anglican who invented the
clergyman who is best known for his earliest form of the
invention of an early form of the slide slide rule, two identical
rule.
linear or circular
logarithmic scales held
together and adjusted
by hand.

John Napier Napier's bones, also

John Napier of Merchiston nicknamed called Napier's rods,

Marvellous Merchiston, was a Scottish are numbered rods
landowner known as a mathematician, which can be used to
physicist, and astronomer. perform multiplication
of any number by a
number 2-9.

Wilhelm Shickard Wilhelm Schickard was

Wilhelm Schickard was a German a German astronomer

professor of Hebrew and astronomy who invented a
who became famous in the second calculating machine
part of the 20th century after Franz long before Pascal.
Hammer, a biographer (along with
Max Caspar) of Johannes Kepler,
claimed that the drawings of a
calculating clock, predating the public
release of Pascal's calculator by
twenty years, had been discovered in
two unknown letters written by
Schickard to Johannes Kepler in 1623
and 1624.

Blaise Pascal In the 1640s he

Blaise Pascal was a French invented the Pascaline,

mathematician, physicist, inventor, an early calculator, and
philosopher, writer, and Catholic further validated
theologian. Evangelista Torricelli's
theory concerning the
cause of barometrical
variations.

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Gottfried Wilhelm von The stepped reckoner,
Leibniz also known as Leibniz

was a German polymath active as a calculator, was a

mathematician, philosopher, scientist mechanical calculator
and diplomat. invented by the German
mathematician
Gottfried Wilhelm
Leibniz around 1672.

Charles Babbage The Analytical Engine

was an English polymath. A was a proposed

mathematician, philosopher, inventor mechanical general-
and mechanical engineer, Babbage purpose computer
originated the concept of a digital designed by English
programmable computer. mathematician and
computer pioneer
Charles Babbage. It
was first described in
1837 as the successor
to Babbage's difference
engine, which was a
design for a simpler
mechanical calculator.

Augusta Ada Byron It turns out that long

Augusta Ada King, Countess of before the first

Lovelace was an English computer was invented,
mathematician and writer, chiefly Lovelace had come up
known for her work on Charles with the idea for a
Babbage's proposed mechanical computer language.
general-purpose computer, the
Analytical Engine.

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Alessandro Volta The voltaic pile,

Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio invented by Alessandro

Anastasio Volta was an Italian Volta in 1800, was the
physicist, chemist and lay Catholic first electric battery.
who was a pioneer of electricity and
power who is credited as the inventor
of the electric battery and the
discoverer of methane.

Samuel F. B. Morse What did Samuel F.B.

Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an Morse invent? Samuel

American inventor and painter. F.B. Morse developed
an electric telegraph
(1832–35) and then
invented, with his friend
Alfred Vail, the Morse
Code (1838).

Alexander Graham Bell On March 7, 1876, 29-

was a Scottish-born inventor, scientist year-old Alexander

and engineer who is credited with Graham Bell receives a
patenting the first practical telephone. patent for his
revolutionary new
invention: the
telephone.

Guillermo Marconi Italian inventor and

Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, engineer Guglielmo

1st Marquis of Marconi FRSA was an Marconi (1874-1937)
Italian inventor and electrical developed,
engineer, known for his creation of a demonstrated and
practical radio wave-based wireless marketed the first
telegraph system.
successful long-
distance wireless
telegraph

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Herman Hollerith The tabulating machine

Herman Hollerith was a German- was an

American statistician, inventor, and electromechanical
businessman who developed an machine designed to
electromechanical tabulating machine assist in summarizing
for punched cards to assist in information stored on
summarizing information and, later, in
punched cards.
accounting.
Invented by Herman
Hollerith, the machine
was developed to help
process data for the
1890 U.S. Census.

Howard Aiken The Harvard Mark II,

Howard Hathaway Aiken was an also known as the

American physicist and a pioneer in Aiken Relay Calculator,
computing, being the original was an
conceptual designer behind IBM's electromechanical
Harvard Mark I computer. computer built under
the direction of Howard
Aiken at Harvard
University, completed
in 1947. It was financed
by the United States
Navy and used for
ballistic calculations at
Naval Proving Ground
Dahlgren.

John Mauchly and John William Mauchly

and J. Presper Eckert
John Presper Eckert
are the scientists
Eckert and Mauchly were recognized credited with the
with numerous honors and awards for invention of the
their work, having both received the
Electronic Numerical
U.S. National Medal of Science in 1969
Integrator and
and the IEEE Computer Society
Pioneer Award in 1980. Mauchly died Computer (ENIAC), the
in 1980. Eckert died in 1995. first general-purpose
electronic digital
computer completed in
1946.

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John Neuman inventor of the ancestor

John von Neumann was a Hungarian- of digital computers

American mathematician, physicist, was born on 28
computer scientist, engineer and December, 1903, 114
polymath. years ago. Neumann
was a Hungarian-
American
mathematician,
physicist, and computer
scientist.

Maurice Wilkes The Cambridge Ring

Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes was a was an experimental

British computer scientist who local area network
designed and helped build the architecture developed
Electronic Delay Storage Automatic at the Computer
Calculator (EDSAC), one of the earliest Laboratory, University
stored program computers, and who
of Cambridge starting in
invented microprogramming, a
1974 and continuing
method for using stored-program logic
to operate the control unit of a central into the 1980s. It was a
processing unit's circuits. ring network with a
theoretical limit of 255
nodes, around which
cycled a fixed number
of packets.

George Gray The man responsible for

George William Gray was a Professor this society-changing

of Organic Chemistry at the University invention was George
of Hull who was instrumental in Gray – his new liquid
developing the long-lasting materials crystal molecules (now
which made liquid crystal displays known as 5CB) made
possible.
liquid crystal displays
(LCDs) viable and
kickstarted the
multibillion-dollar flat-
screen industry.