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CSNT/100 & ITAD/100History of 21st Century Computing
Week 2
2001 Computing History
What Who Category Description
File Compression Igor Pavlov Algorithms Lempel-Ziv-Markov
chain Compression
Face Recognition
Paul ViolaMichael Jones Algorithms
Real-time object detection framework for face recognition
Agile Software Development Agile Alliance
Software Development Mentodology
Valuing: individuals, interactions > code & processes; working SW > documents; + customer collab.; quick changes response.
Mac OS X, Windows XP
Apple, Microsoft
Operating Systems
Initial version of BSD Unix based Graphical Operating System; Rewritten OS based on Windows NT Kernel
2002-2005 Computing History
What Who Category Description
Blackberry Introduced RIM (Canada) Smart Phone
Supports push Email, phone calling, texting, faxing and web browsing
Roomba Introduced iRobot Robotics
Roomba autonomously vacuums the floor while navigating and avoiding obstacles.
Binary Prefixes Standard Issued
(2004)IEEE Std 260.1
Units of Measurement Specifications
Definitions for KiB, MiB, GiB etc, reserving the symbols kB, MB, GB etc for their decimal counterparts. 1 kiB = 1000 = 10^3 Bytes; 1 KB = 1024 = 2^10 Bytes
Recommender Systems (2005) Amazon, eBay “Big Data”
Tracking web activity or media usage to bring AI to marketing
2007 Computer HistoryWhat Who Category Description
iPhone Apple Smart Phone; Mobile OS
First iOS, (multi-)touch sensitive, hi-res camera, music player, app based phone
Checkers is Solved
Jonathan Schaeffer Artificial Intelligence
Perfect play for each player leads to a draw
Dropbox is founded Arash Ferdowsi Cloud Computing Off-site storage, backup
and large file transfer
Hulu is founded Disney&ABC, Fox, NBC Streaming Video
U.S. based; On demand streaming to screen devices; Worldwide TV Series access
Scratch is Released Mitchel Resnick Programming
LanguageFocused on (Child) Education
Kindle eReader is released Amazon eReader Device Handheld reader, audio-
video and game device
2008-2010 Computer History
What Who Category Description
Chrome is released Google Web Browser Currently most
popular worldwideAndroid is
released Google Mobile OSBased on Linux Kernel; largest installed base worldwide
Self-Driving Car (2009) Google AI & Machine
LearningFrom driver assisted to fully automated
Bitcoin is released (2009)
“Satoshi Nakamoto”
OnlineCurrency
Crypto-currency and payment system
iPad is Released (2010) Apple Tablet
ComputerEnlarged iPhone (Both use iOS)
2011-2016 Computer History
What Who Category Description
Raspberry Pi is Released
Raspberry Pi Foundation Computers
Created to teach Computer Science; adapted to Robotics
Edward Snowden & Global Surveillance Disclosures (2013)
Edward Snowden; NSA Cryptography
Opened huge issue of National Security vs Information Privacy
Quantum Computer is
Released (2016)MIT Computers
5 atom quantum (qubits); could crack traditional security encryption schemes