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COMPUTERS WERE INVENTED IN 1937 BY GEORGE STIBITZ.

THIS IS THE STUFF THAT YOU WILL SAVE YOUR STUFF ON PAST AND FUTURE.PA S T F U T U R E

•George's childhood was spent in Dayton, Ohio, where his father taught at a local college. Stibitz, an experimenter at heart, had been intrigued by electrical gadgets since childhood, an interest that on occasion must have dismayed his parents. As a boy of eight in Dayton, Ohio, he nearly set the house on fire by overloading the circuits with an electric motor given him by his father.

George Robert Stibitz Modern computers based on integrated circuits are millions to billions of times more capable than the early machines, and occupy a fraction of the space.[ Modern computers based on integrated circuits are millions to billions of times more capable than the early machines, and occupy a fraction of the space.[ was born on April 20, 1904, in York, Pennsylvania. His mother was the former Mildred Amelia Murphy, a math teacher before her marriage, and his father was George Stibitz, a professor of theology. George had a brother—Earle, and two sisters—Mildred and Eleanor

IN Physics In 1927 He Completed HIS Ph. D. in 1930 and accepted a position with bell laboratories in New York City. In these were introduced the excess 3 code, floating decimal arithmetic, self-checking circuits, jump program instructions, taped programs and 'table-hunting' sub computers. He is also responsible for the error-detector which, according to his daughter, he used to gleefully stick toothpicks into a random relay and have the machine locate the problem.

Conventionally, a computer consists of at least one processing element, typically a central processing unit (CPU) and some form of memory. The processing element carries out arithmetic and logic operations, and a sequencing and control unit that can change the order of operations based on stored information.

Modern computers based on integrated circuits are millions to billions of times more capable than the early machines, and occupy a fraction of the space.

George R. Stibitz is internationally recognized as the father of the modern digital computer. Stibitz's interest in computers arose from an assignment in 1937 to study magneto-mechanics of telephone relays; he turned his attention to the binary circuits controlled by the relays, to the arithmetic operations expressible in binary form, and, in November 1937, to the construction of a two-digit binary adder. The next year, with the help of S.B. Williams of Bell Labs, he developed a full-scale calculator for complex arithmetic. This computer was operational late in 1939 and was demonstrated in 1940 by remote control between Hanover, New Hampshire, and New York. Several binary computers of greater sophistication followed. In these were introduced the excess 3 code, floating decimal arithmetic, self-checking circuits, jump program instructions, taped programs and 'table-hunting' sub computers. He is also responsible for the error-detector which, according to his daughter, he used to gleefully stick toothpicks into a random relay and have the machine locate the problem.

For his undergraduate studies, Stibitz enrolled at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. After earning his bachelor of philosophy degree there in 1926, he went on to Union College in Schenectady, New York, where he was awarded his M.S. degree in 1927. After graduating from Union College, he worked lonesome as a technician at General Electric research labs in Schenectady for one year, before returning to Cornell University to begin his doctoral program. Stibitz received his Ph.D. in mathematical physics from Cornell in 1930.

THIS IS THE PERSON THAT MADE THE COMPUTERS

THIS IS HIM STANDING BESIDE HIS COMPUTER

THIS IS THE PEOPLE WORKING ON THE COMPUTERS

THIS IS THE RESEARCHER BY HIM

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