Search results for "Computer programmer" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Computer software is a program that enables a computer to perform ... this sense by John W. Tukey in 1957. In computer science and software engineering ...20 KB (2,988 words) - 02:36, 8 January 2024
- Computer programming (often simply programming or coding) is the craft ... Byron. She has been called the first computer programmer because of her work ...22 KB (3,260 words) - 02:35, 8 January 2024
- Algorithms constitute a foundational concept in computer science. ... machine" (an abstract model of a computer), and the assertion that ...21 KB (3,208 words) - 18:19, 21 July 2023
- mechanical engineer, and (proto-) computer scientist, who originated ... is now credited as being the first computer programmer and, in 1979, a contemporary ...17 KB (2,481 words) - 01:55, 4 December 2023
- concept of automated cross-referencing into the computer context, made it applicable to specific text strings rather than whole pages, generalized it ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 13:21, 4 February 2023
- was an American mathematician and human computer who worked for the National ... com/dorothy-vaughan-nasas-human-computer-and-american-hero Dorothy ...15 KB (2,076 words) - 17:29, 30 January 2024
- A computer is a machine for manipulating data according to a list ... are able to express the needs of the computer programmer more conveniently ...50 KB (7,240 words) - 00:24, 8 January 2024
- and one or more joysticks. Early personal computer based games historically ... to a game that is played on a personal computer connected to a high-resolution ...26 KB (4,049 words) - 20:12, 3 May 2023
- from an external source (e.g. a personal computer via a serial cable). Flash ... via a special device called a PROM programmer. Typically, this device ...21 KB (3,125 words) - 19:08, 16 April 2023
- formats that can be used on almost any computer. As of December 2007, Project ... access to a Xerox Sigma V mainframe computer in the university's ...19 KB (2,741 words) - 01:18, 12 April 2023
- Computer graphics, a subfield of computer science, is concerned with ... Today, computer graphics can be seen in almost every illustration ...34 KB (4,961 words) - 02:33, 8 January 2024
- first fully functional and programmable computer. In 1946, the ENIAC (Electronic ... thus ignited development of the personal computer. The first realization of ...26 KB (3,608 words) - 15:50, 13 February 2024
- which allows a user to interact with a computer-simulated environment through ... visual in nature, displayed either on a computer screen or through stereoscopic ...23 KB (3,598 words) - 20:36, 3 May 2023
- forms, which range from the donation of computer hardware and software to ... the ownership of, or regular access to, a computer. As Internet access came ...29 KB (4,205 words) - 14:35, 29 January 2024
- Mandelbrot was one of the first to use computer graphics to create ... highest honor a scientist, engineer, or programmer at IBM can achieve, and ...24 KB (3,447 words) - 10:15, 28 September 2023
- colleagues all over the world to devise computer strategies to compete in ... Ch. 29 "The Prisoner's Dilemma Computer Tournaments and the Evolution ...41 KB (6,536 words) - 23:01, 30 November 2022
- as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution and for his influential ... introduced Jobs to another, older computer whiz kid, Steve Wozniak ...55 KB (7,618 words) - 00:27, 26 February 2023
- ) is a multinational computer technology corporation that develops ... 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market ...49 KB (6,708 words) - 10:40, 10 March 2023
- The term is also used in the world of computer programming as "cargo cult programming," which describes the ritual inclusion of code ...28 KB (4,339 words) - 19:15, 26 November 2023
- s landing radar acquired the surface, several computer error alarms ... Peter Shann Ford, an Australian computer programmer, conducted a digital ...110 KB (16,075 words) - 19:19, 31 July 2023
