William Seward Burroughs

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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
• William Seward Burroughs - Wikipedia, the free
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• History of Calculators - William Seward Burroughs
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