Glossary of Terms
2001: A Space Odyssey A 1968 science fiction epic written by Arthur C. Clarke and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The sentient computer on board a spacecraft goes insane and murders the entire crew except for one person, who disconnects him to the tune of “Daisy Bell.” This movie set the standard for science fiction movies for decades.
ACM, Association of Computing Machinery Founded in 1947 as an unintended consequence of the Symposium on Large-Scale Digital Calculating Machinery hosted at Harvard by Howard Aiken.
ARRA (1 and 2) (1952) The first and second versions of the computer that Dijkstra was hired to work on at the Dutch Mathematical Center. The first was electromechanical and was a failure. The second used vacuum tubes ...
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