Information TechEmerging 10107144

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Information Tech-Emerging10-107-144

• Instructor Michael J. Teske

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Agenda

• ?
• Introduce yourself
• Course Content
• Course Overview
• Syllabus
• Projects
• Presentation(s)
• Current events
• Timeline

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Introduce Yourself

• Name
• Which program and semester
• Where you are from
• Past work experience (if any)
• What kind of job you want after graduation

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Goals throughout this course

• Technical
• Discover various resources
• Research new networking technologies
• Non-technical
• Communication
• Interpersonal

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Course Overview

• Papers/Assigments
• Sources List
• Current List
• Bias and Reliability Paper
• Priority List
• Management Speak Definitions
• Implementation challenges Paper
• Etc.
• Presentations (three)
• Presentation to a group of peers
• Presentation to a group of decision makers
• Presentation to a industry collegues

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Syllabus

• Review (see handout)

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A Brief History ofInformation Technology
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Ancient History

• 500 B.C. The Abacus
• 1614 1892
• A variety of mechanical computers culminating
  with comptometer
• 1801 Punched Card Loom
• 1848 Binary Algebra Boolean
• 1890 U.S. Census Hollerith Cards

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The Apex of Technology
Everything that can be invented has already
been invented. Charles H. Duell Director of
U.S. Patent Office 1899
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The Electronic Revolution

• 1906 The vacuum tube
• 1932 Binary digital counter
• 1935 IBM 601 Punch card machine with arithmetic
  unit. 1500 sold
• 1939 First electronic digital calculator.
• 1943 Generation 1 computers use vacuum valves
  and wire circuits.

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No Market for Computers
I think there is a world market for maybe
five computers. Thomas Watson Chairman of
IBM 1943
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Early Computers

• 1942 Heath Robinson code breaking
• 1943 Relay Interpolator programmable
  calculator
• 1943 Colossus breaks Enigma code
• 1946 ENIAC first totally electronic, digital
  computer. Ballistic trajectories

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More Early Computers

• 1948 SSEM stores both programs and data in RAM.
• 1949 EDVAC first to use magnetic tape.
• 1951 UNIVAC-1 the first commercially successful
  general purpose computer.
• 1953 100 computers in the world.

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The Computer a Big Thing
Computers in the future may weigh no more
than 1.5 tons. Popular Mechanics 1949
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Or is it?
I have traveled the length and breadth of
this country and talked with the best people,
and can assure you that data processing is a
fad that wont last out the year The editor
in charge of business books for Prentice
Hall 1957
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2nd Generation Hardware

• 1947 Bell Labs develops the transistor.
• 1950 Floppy Disk
• 1953 Magnetic core memory.
• 1957 Dot Matrix Printer
• 1959 Integrated Circuits
• 1959 First Xerox copier.

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Software Too

• 1951 First Machine Code Compiler
• 1957 FORTRAN
• 1959 COBOL
• 1960 ALGOL Structures
• 1961 APL IBM
• 1961 PL/1

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Things just keep getting smaller.
But what is it good for? Engineer at the
Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM
commenting on the microchip. 1968
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3rd Generation Hardware

• 1965 Moores Law
• Intel co-founder, Gordon Moore, predicted that
  the number of transistors on a chip will double
  about every two years
• 1965 The mouse
• 1965 CD6600 Supercomputer
• 1969 RS-232 serial interface
• 1970 RAM chips
• 1970 LSI chips Tomcat
• 1971 First microprocessor

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Any yes, software too

• 1965 BASIC
• Programming language
• 1968 First Word Processing program
• 1970 FORTH
• Programming language
• 1971 Pascal OOP
• Programming language
• 1972 C
• Programming language

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IT comes of age.
Man of the year is the computer. Time
Magazine 1982
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4th Generation Hardware Software

• 1973 Bar code readers
• 1973 Unix
• 1975 VLSI chips
• Very-large-scale-integration
• Microprocessor is a VLSI chip
• 1976 Laser Printer
• 1976 Cray Supercomputers
• 1981 WIMP Xerox GUI
• 1987 Connection Machine loosely coupled
  supercomputer

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Mainframes Minicomputers
There is no reason anyone would want a
computer in their home. Ken Olson President
and founder of DEC 1977
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Early Microcomputers

• 1974 Intel 8080 Altair 8080
• 1976 6502 Apple II, Commodore
• 1978 Intel 8086/8088
• 1979 68000 Mac, Atari
• 1981 IBM PC 2800
• 1982 Commodore 64

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And PC Software

• 1965 Basic
• 1976 CP/M
• Control Program for a Microcomputer
• OS created for Intel 8080/85 based Microcomputers
• 1979 Visi-Calc spreadsheet
• 1980 DOS Seattle Computer Products

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They Just Never Learn
640K ought to be enough for anybody. Bill
Gates - Co-founder of Microsoft 1981 (2009-Vi
sta Business Edition Minimum Memory System
Requirement 1 GB) http//www.microsoft.com/window
s/windows-vista/get/system-requirements.aspx
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And Sometimes They Do
Hello everybody out there using minix- Im
doing a (free) operating system (just a
hobby, wont be big and professional like
gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. Linus
Torvalds developer of Linux 1991
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Processors Improve

• 1982 80286
• 1982 Compaq Luggable
• 1986 386DX
• 1989 486DX
• 1993 Pentium
• 1998 Pentium II
• 1999 Pentium 3
• 2000 Pentium 4
• Etc.

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So Does Other Hardware

• 1984 LaserJet
• 1985 CGA
• 1986 EGA
• 1987 VGA
• 1987 8514/A Graphics Card
• 1988 ATA
• 1989 Sound Blaster

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And More Hardware

• 1989 EIDE
• 1990 SVGA
• 1991 ISA Standard
• 1993 MPEG
• 1993 CD-R

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Software Tries To Keep Up

• 1985 Windows 286
• 1985 LIM Memory standard
• 1987 OS/2
• 1991 DOS 5
• 1991 Linux Born
• 1992 Windows 3.1
• 1993 Windows NT 3.1
• 1995 Windows 95

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More Software

• 1998 Windows 98
• 1999 Windows 98 Second Edition (?)
• 2000 Windows 2000
• 2001 Windows XP
• 2001 Mac OS-X

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Entertainment Drives Technology

• 1972 Pong
• 1978 Space Invaders
• 1979 Asteroids
• 1981 Pac-Man
• 1982 MIDI
• 1985 Tetris
• 1992 Wolfenstein
• 1993 Doom
• 2001 Xbox

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Data Communicationsa Parallel Universe

• 1962 T1
• 1962 Fax
• 1962 Paging
• 1964 Sabre
• 1969 ARPANet
• 1969 Picture Phone
• 1973 Ethernet
• 1973 FTP

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More Data Communications

• 1974 Packet Switching Networks
• 1979 CompuServe
• 1980 T3
• 1983 2nd Generation Cellular
• 1984 DNS
• 1985 GPS
• 1989 World Wide Web
• 1993 ISPs

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Still More Data Comm

• 1993 ISDN
• 1994 Netscape
• 1996 Cable Modem
• 1998 DSL
• 1999 Wireless Ethernet
• 2000 Bluetooth
• 2000 Ethernet WAN
• 2001 3rd Generation Cellular