trace the history and development of computer technology,with special refrence to the computer generation?
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You want the ENTIRE history of computers posted here in this little box?
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search on www.computerhistory.org\nhttp://www.hitmill.com/computers/compute...\nhttp://inventors.about.com/library/blcoi...\n\nplease use the above links . i think they might me useful for ur research
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Here, read all about it.\nhttp://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa080498.htm\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit#History.2C_origins_and_generations
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You should try reading "Flesh and Machines" by Rodney Brooks.  He does a nice cursory overview of the history of robotics and the implications on society of their existence.
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Past - Really Big Calculators. Originally considered no more than a number cruncher, 'programs' were primarily business oriented. Accounting, Scientific, etc. At the time, only a handful of people on the planet ever considered they would be more than the 'science fiction' movies of the time portrayed them.\nPresent - Computer jargon is very much a part of our ordinary lives. Nearly every appliance in a modern house contains more computing power than that which ran the moonshot missions. A significant percentage of the world's populace could not conceive of a world without computers. More than business, computers are our entertainment, our transportation, communication, our virtual life.\nFuture - Further human integration. Smart Computers will run our everyday lives: feeding us, tools for work & play, our sole means of communication with those around us. Further progress for implants into humans will allow 'hands free' operation. No money, cards, phones, etc. will be required past the optics to access personal links to the worldwide net.\n\nIf we happen to survive that long.
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sorry, i wasnt paying any attention in my computer literature class last year. it might be in 1960 somthin, i think
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i found some information about the history of technology since the early terchnology till now....i really hopes this works for you....good luck\n\n\nps: dont forget to choose me as best answer....\n\nhttp://www.answers.com/History%20of%20Technology
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Post Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution.\n\nDarwin's theory of evolution was a landmark in science, and hence is used as a time-line in referring to advances in similar areas.\n\nAs a similar reference for comparison\n\n"The computer is the greatest labour saving device in the post industrial era"\n\nThe industrial era is when labour saving machines began to proliferate - steam driven engines powering weaving machines etc.\n\nThe statement is saying since we have had labour saving devices the computer has saved more labour than any other machine.\n\nThe finding of the "missing link" would be the greatest discovery in the post Darwinian era.\n\nMeans:\n\nThe finding of the missing link would be the greatest boon to evolutionary science since Darwins theory of evolution.
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Are we writing your thesis for you?\nHere you go:\n\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_operating_systems\n\nhttp://www.cs.gordon.edu/courses/cs322/lectures/history.html\n\nhttp://www.armory.com/~spectre/tech.html\n\nhttp://www.computerhope.com/os.htm\n\nhttp://www.computinghistorymuseum.org/teaching/papers/research/history_of_operating_system_Moumina.pdf\n\nhttp://www.answers.com/topic/history-of-operating-systems\n\nhttp://www.netnam.vn/unescocourse/os/12.htm\n\nhttp://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs1104/VirtualMachines/OS.1.html\n\nhttp://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/books/mos2/sample-1.pdf \n\nhttp://www.phptr.com/articles/article.asp?p=24972&rl=1\n\nEverything you need is right here in these links.
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That depends on what you mean by "computer".  The basis of any computing machine is the ability to do input, processing and output.  The core of what makes it a computer is to handle "whatif" questions and to respond differently based on the answer to those questions.  For example, to say, "If the dollar amount is less than X then do this, but if it's greater than X then do that.\n\nBy that definition, the first true computer would probably be Charles Babbage's "Difference Engine" built in the late 1800s.  An improved version, which he called the "Analytical Engine" actually accepted punch card programs, the first of which was written by Lord Byron's daughter, Ada Lovelace, making her the world's first computer programmer.\n\nThe first truly modern electronic computer was, arguably, the ENIAC developed for the US Army by the University of Pennsylvania.  I say "arguably" because it depends on which features you want to include in the definition of "modern electronic computer."  For example, the ENIAC had no stored memory and had to be rewired for each program.\n\nHope this helps.
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Babbage's machine was really a difference engine.\nThe fist electronic computer was build in Britain by the Post Office Research Branch in 1943.
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1989 First multifunctional measuring device with a softkey user interface, insertable program and memory cards, and insertable hardware modules to allow configuration of the hardware as required\n\n\nrefer:\n\nhttp://www.pruftechnik.com/pt/history.htm
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Pretty good history at Wikipedia.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_computer
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Charles Babbage -Father of computer.\nAugustus Ada King- Mother of programming
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_programming_languages
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1) The Telephone \nThe telephone is an instrument that converts voice and sound signals into electrical impulses for transmission by wire to a different location, where another telephone receives the electrical impulses and turns them back into recognizable sounds. In 1875, Alexander Graham Bell built the first telephone that transmitted electrically the human voice.\n2) The History of Computers\nThere are many major milestones in the history of computers, starting with 1936, when Konrad Zuse built the first freely programmable computer.\n3) Television \nIn 1884, Paul Nipkow sent images over wires using a rotating metal disk technology with 18 lines of resolution. Television then evolved along two paths, mechanical based on Nipkow's rotating disks, and electronic based on the cathode ray tube. American Charles Jenkins and Scotsman John Baird followed the mechanical model while Philo Farnsworth, working independently in San Francisco, and Russian émigré Vladimir Zworkin, working for Westinghouse and later RCA, advanced the electronic model.\n4) The Automobile\nIn 1769, the very first self-propelled road vehicle was invented by French mechanic, Nicolas Joseph Cugnot. However, it was a steam-powered model. In 1885, Karl Benz designed and built the world's first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine. In 1885, Gottlieb Daimler took the internal combustion engine a step further and patented what is generally recognized as the prototype of the modern gas engine and later built the world's first four-wheeled motor vehicle.\n5) The Cotton Gin \nEli Whitney patented the cotton gin on March 14, 1794. The cotton gin is a machine that separates seeds, hulls and other unwanted materials from cotton after it has been picked.\n6) The Camera\nIn 1814, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce created the first photographic image with a camera obscura, however, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded. Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre is considered the inventor of the first practical process of photography in 1837.\n7) The Steam Engine\nThomas Savery was an English military engineer and inventor who in 1698, patented the first crude steam engine. Thomas Newcomen invented the atmospheric steam engine in 1712. James Watt improved Newcomen's design and invented what is considered the first modern steam engine in 1765.\n8) The Sewing Machine\nThe first functional sewing machine was invented by the French tailor, Barthelemy Thimonnier, in 1830. In 1834, Walter Hunt built America's first (somewhat) successful sewing machine. Elias Howe patented the first lockstitch sewing machine in 1846. Isaac Singer invented the up-and-down motion mechanism. In 1857, James Gibbs patented the first chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine. Helen Augusta Blanchard patented the first zig-zag stitch machine in 1873.\n9) The Light Bulb\nContrary to popular belief, Thomas Alva Edison didn't "invent" the light bulb, but rather he improved upon a 50-year-old idea. In 1809, Humphry Davy, an English chemist, invented the first electric light. In 1878, Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, an English physicist, was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb (13.5 hours) with a carbon fiber filament. In 1879, Thomas Alva Edison invented a carbon filament that burned for forty hours.\n10) Penicillin \nPenicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928. Andrew Moyer patented the first method of industrial production of penicillin in 1948.
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I would say computer technology.