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William Seward Burroughs
  • Profile of Historical Figure
  • In Technology
  • By Sheryl Myrieckes
  • Dr. Craig Cunningham
  • NLU TIE 532

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William Seward Burroughs - Inventor
  • Biography

Born January 28, 1855 in Auburn, New
York Died September 14, 1898 in Citronelle,
Alabama Buried Bellefontaine Cemetery in St.
Louis, Missouri
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William Seward Burroughs
American Inventor of the Calculator
Machine The beginning of office
automation Patent - First Calculating Machine
in 1885-1888 Patent Practical Commercial Model
in 1892
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American Inventor of the Adding
Machine Burroughs founded the American
Arithmometer Company in 1886 In 1905, changed to
the Burroughs Adding Machine Company In honor of
his death, it became the Burroughs Corporation
in1953 1986 Merged with Sperry to form UNISYS
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Burroughs had the biggest adding machine company
in the U.S. with variation in products such as
adding machines, typewriters, check protectors,
electronic billing machines, ticketeers, and
finally computers.
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Major Accomplishments Invention of the Adding
Machines, Cash Registers, Printers, Disk-Drives
and Tape-Drives Large system, medium system ,
and small system main frame class
computers Developed Language Directed Design
or Programming Languages such as ALGOL,
COBOL, FORTRAN, Small system computers were
micro-programmed. Micro-processing led to the
use of LAN
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MAJOR ACCOMPISHMENTS Franklin Institutes John
Scott Medal National Inventors Hall of
Fame One of eight major U.S. computer companies
IBM, Burroughs, Honeywell, NCR, RCA, UNIVAC,
General Electric, Control Data Corporation, etc
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During WWII they steered towards computers
working with the government on numerous
contracts. Mostly making large, medium, and
small frame computers used by banks and
businesses.
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PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE Adding
Machines Calculating Machines Cash
Registers Main Frame Computers Language
Programs Micro-Processing Micro-Chips LAN
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Burroughs B205 hardware has appeared as props in
many Hollywood TV and movie productions from the
1960s onwards. For example a B205 console was
often shown in the TV series Batman as the Bat
Computer also as the computer in Lost in Space.
B205 tape drives were often seen in shows such as
The Time Tunnel and Voyage to the Bottom of the
Sea.
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QUESTIONS What does he feel is his greatest
accomplishment , and what is it that he feels is
his worst? What would he do differently, if
he could do it all over again? Does he have any
regrets?
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He worked as a bank clerk at the Cayuga County
National Bank in Auburn, New York. Determined
to add new machine into the modern day office
at the end of the century. Died at 43 years
old due to illness. His machines began the
revolution of technology.
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  • GLOSARY
  • Inventor - An inventor is a person who creates or
    discovers a new method, form, device or other
    useful means.
  • Patent - A patent is a set of exclusive rights
    granted by a state to an inventor or his assignee
    for a fixed period of time in exchange for a
    disclosure of an invention.
  •  
  • A Comptometer is a type of mechanical (or
    electro-mechanical) adding machine. The
    comptometer was the first adding device to be
    driven solely by the action of pressing keys,
    which are arranged in an array of vertical and
    horizontal columns.
  • Adding Machine _ An adding machine is a type of
    calculator, usually specialized for bookkeeping
    calculations
  • Calculator - A calculator is a device for
    performing mathematical calculations,
    distinguished from a computer by having a limited
    problem solving ability and an interface
    optimized for interactive calculation rather than
    programming. Calculators can be hardware or
    software, and mechanical or electronic, and are
    often built into devices such as PDAs or mobile
    phones.

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  • Bookeeping - Bookkeeping (book-keeping or book
    keeping) is the recording of the value of assets,
    liabilities, income, and expenses in the
    daybooks, journals, and ledgers, which debit and
    credit entries are chronologically posted to
    record changes in value.
  • A computer is a machine that manipulates data
    according to a list of instructions. The first
    devices that resemble modern computers date to
    the mid-20th century (19401945), although the
    computer concept and various machines similar to
    computers existed earlier. Early electronic
    computers were the size of a large room,
    consuming as much power as several hundred modern
    personal computers (PC).1 Modern computers are
    based on tiny integrated circuits and are
    millions to billions of times more capable while
    occupying a fraction of the space.2 Today,
    simple computers may be made small enough to fit
    into a wristwatch and be powered from a watch
    battery.
  • Programs - Computer programs (also software
    programs, or just programs) are instructions for
    a computer.1 A computer requires programs to
    function. Moreover, a computer program does not
    run unless its instructions are executed by a
    central processor2 however, a program may
    communicate an algorithm to people without
    running. Computer programs are usually executable
    programs or the source code from which executable
    programs are derived (e.g., compiled).
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  • Fortran (previously FORTRAN1) is a
    general-purpose,2 procedural,3 imperative
    programming language that is especially suited to
    numeric computation and scientific computing.
    Originally developed by IBM in the 1950s for
    scientific and engineering applications, Fortran
    came to dominate this area of programming early
    on and has been in continual use for over half a
    century in computationally intensive areas such
    as numerical weather prediction, finite element
    analysis, computational fluid dynamics (CFD),
    computational physics, and computational
    chemistry. It is one of the most popular
    languages in the area of High-performance
    computing and programs to benchmark and rank the
    world's fastest supercomputers are written in
    Fortran4.
  • A local area network (LAN) is a computer network
    covering a small physical area, like a home,
    office, or small group of buildings, such as a
    school, or an airport. The defining
    characteristics of LANs, in contrast to wide-area
    networks (WANs), include their usually higher
    data-transfer rates, smaller geographic range,
    and lack of a need for leased telecommunication
    lines.
  • Wide Area Network (WAN) is a computer network
    that covers a broad area (i.e., any network whose
    communications links cross metropolitan,
    regional, or national boundaries 1). Contrast
    with personal area networks (PANs), local area
    networks (LANs), campus area networks (CANs), or
    metropolitan area networks (MANs) which are
    usually limited to a room, building, campus or
    specific metropolitan area (e.g., a city)
    respectively. The largest and most well-known
    example of a WAN is the Internet.

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  • In mathematics, computing, linguistics and
    related subjects, an algorithm is a sequence of
    finite instructions, often used for calculation
    and data processing. It is formally a type of
    effective method in which a list of well-defined
    instructions for completing a task will, when
    given an initial state, proceed through a
    well-defined series of successive states,
    eventually terminating in an end-state. The
    transition from one state to the next is not
    necessarily deterministic some algorithms, known
    as probabilistic algorithms, incorporate
    randoness.
  • ALGOL (short for ALGOrithmic Language)1 is a
    family of imperative computer programming
    languages originally developed in the mid 1950s
    which greatly influenced many other languages and
    became the de facto way algorithms were described
    in textbooks and academic works for almost the
    next 30 years2. It was designed to avoid some
    of the perceived problems with FORTRAN and
    eventually gave rise to many other programming
    languages (including BCPL, B and C). ALGOL
    introduced code blocks and was the first language
    to use begin end pairs for delimiting them.
    Fragments of ALGOL-like syntax are sometimes
    still used as a notation for algorithms,
    so-called Pidgin Algol.
  • COBOL (pronounced /'ko?b?l/) is one of the oldest
    programming languages still in active use. Its
    name is an acronym for COmmon Business-Oriented
    Language, defining its primary domain in
    business, finance, and administrative systems for
    companies and governments.

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  • In the field of telecommunications, a
    communications protocol is the set of standard
    rules for data representation, signaling,
    authentication and error detection required to
    send information over a communications channel.
    Communication protocols for digital computer
    network communication have features intended to
    ensure reliable interchange of data over an
    imperfect communication channel. Communication
    protocol is basically following certain rules so
    that the system works properly
  • In electronics, an integrated circuit (also known
    as IC, microcircuit, microchip, silicon chip, or
    chip) is a miniaturized electronic circuit
    (consisting mainly of semiconductor devices, as
    well as passive components) that has been
    manufactured in the surface of a thin substrate
    of semiconductor material. Integrated circuits
    are used in almost all electronic equipment in
    use today and have revolutionized the world of
    electronics.
  • Microchips (EPROM memory) with a transparent
    window, showing the integrated circuit inside.
    Note the fine silver-colored wires that connect
    the integrated circuit to the pins of the
    package. The window allows the memory contents of
    the chip to be erased, by exposure to strong
    ultraviolet light in an eraser device.

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  • Bibliography
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