Encyclopedia of Computers and Computer History
LIST OF ENTRIES
Abacus
Acrobat/PDF
Ada
Adobe Systems
Advanced Micro Devices
Agent
Aiken, Howard
Algebra, Computer
ALGOL
Algorithm
Allen, Paul
AlohaNet
Altair 8880
Alto Computer
Amazon.com
Amdahl, Gene M
.
Amdahl's Law
American National Standards Institute
America Online
Analog Computers
Analytical Engine
Andreessen, Marc
Apache
APL
Apple Computer
Apple I and Apple II
Applet
AppleTalk
Archie and Veronica
Architecture, Computer
ARP
ARPA
ARPANET
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Life
Art of Computer Programming
ASCII
ASCII Art
Assembler
Association for Computing Machinery
As We May Think
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
AT&T
AT&T breakup
Atanasoff-Berry Computer
Atanasoff, John
Atlas
Automatic Teller Machine
Automaton
Babbage, Charles
Backbone
Back Door
Backus, John
Backus Naur Form
Baldwin-Odhner Calculators
Bandwidth
Baran, Paul
Bar Code Scanner
Bardeen, Brattain, Schockley
BASIC
Batch Processing
Bechtolsheim, Andreas
Bell Labs
Berners-Lee, Tim
Bernstein v. US Department of Justice
BESM-6
Binary System
Biochips
BIOS
Bit and Byte
BITNET
Bolt, Beranek and Newman
Boolean Algebra
Boole, George
Bots
Bridge
Browser
Bug
Bulletin Board Systems
BUNCH
Bundling and Unbundling
Burroughs
Bus
Bushnell, Nolan
Bush, Vannevar
C and C++
Cable Modem
Cache
Carry Look-Ahead
Cathode Ray Tube
CCITT Standards
CD-ROM
CeBIT
Center for Democracy and Technology
Central Processing Unit
Cerf, Vinton
Chat Rooms
Chess, Computer
Chomsky Hierarchy
Chomsky, Noam
Church, Alonzo
Cisco Systems
Clean Room
Clipper Chip
Clone
CMOS
COBOL
Codd, Edgar F.
Color Management
Colossus Machines
COMDEX
Commodore 64
Communications Decency Act
Compaq Computer Corporation
Compiler and Interpreter
CompuServe
Computational Complexity
Computer-Aided Design
Computer-Aided Manufacturing
Computer Associates
Computer Based Training/Web Based Training
Computer Emergency Response Team
Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
Computer Science
Computer Sciences Corporation
Computers, Generations of
Computer Society
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Concurrency and Parallelism
Conference on Data Systems and Languages
Connection Machine
Control Data Corporation
Cookie
CORBA
Council of Registrars
CP/M
Cracker
Cray-1
Cray Research
Cray, Seymour
Crime, Computer
Cyberlaw
Cybernetics
Cybernetics (Wiener)
Cyberpunk
Cyberspace
Cyborg
Cyc
DAT
Database Management Systems
Data Compression
Data Encryption Standard
Data Flow
Data Mining
Data Warehouse
Davies, Donald
dBase
DB2
Debugging
Dell Computer
Desktop Publishing
Deutsches Institut für Normierung
Difference Engine
Digital
Digital Cash
Digital Computer
Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Digital Subscriber Line
Dijkstra, E.W.
Direct Memory Access
Display Modes
Distributed Computing
Domain Name System
DOS
eBay
EBCDIC
Eckert, John Presper
Editor
EDSAC
EDVAC
Eiffel
Electronic Calculator
Electronic Civil Disobedience
Electronic Commerce
Electronic Data Systems
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic Mail
Electronic Voting
Embedded Systems
Emoticons
Encryption and Cryptography
Engelbart, Douglas
ENIAC
EPROM
Epson
ERA 1101
Error Correcting Codes
Ethernet
Ethics, Computer
Expert Systems
Extranet
Fairchild Semiconductor
FAQ
Fault Tolerant Computing
Feigenbaum, Edward
Ferranti Mark I
Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FidoNet
File Server
Firewall
First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC
Flash Memory
Flip-flop
Floating-Point
Floppy Disk
Fonts, Computer
Fortran
Fractals
Freenets
Free Software Foundation
FTP
Fujitsu
Functional Programming
Fuzzy Logic
Games, Computer
Garbage Collection
Gates, William H., III
Genetic Algorithms
Global Village
GNU Project
Goldberg, Adele
Gopher
Gordon Bell Prizes for Parallelism
"GO TO Considered Harmful"
Graphical User Interface
Graphics, Computer
Grosch's Law
Groupware
Grove, Andy
Hackers and Hacking
HAL
Hamming, Richard Wesley
Hard Disk
Hardware
Harvard Mark 1
Hayes Corporation
Heuristic
Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett, William and Dave Packard
Hillis, Danny
Hitachi
Hoare, C. Antony R.
Hoelzer, Helmut
Hollerith, Herman
Homebrew Computer Club
Honeywell
Hopper, Grace
HTML
Human-Computer Interaction
Hypercube Architecture
Hypertext
Hyperwave
IAS Machine
IBM
IBM Mainframes
IBM Midrange Computers
ILLIAC IV
Information Appliance
Information Infrastructure
Information Management
Information Technology Association of America
Information Warfare
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Instruction Set
Integrated Circuit
Intel Corporation
Interfaces
Interleaving
International Federation for Information Processing
International Organization for Standardization
International Telecommunications Union
Internet
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
Internet Service Providers
Internet Society
Internet2
InterNIC
Interrupt
Intranets and Extranets
Investigation of the Laws of Thought, An (Boole)
IP Address
IP Telephony
ISDN
Java
Jini
Jobs, Steve
Joy, Bill
JPEG
Kahan, William
Kahn, Robert
Kapor, Mitchell
Kay, Alan
Keyboards
Key Escrow Encryption
Kilburn, Tom
Kilby, Jack,
Kildall, Gary
Killer Application
Knuth, Don
Kurzweil, Raymond C.
Laptop
Legacy software
Leibniz calculator
Leibniz, Gottfried
Licklider, Joseph C.R.
LINC
Linux
Liquid-Crystal Display
LISP
Local Area Network
Logic Gates
Logic Programming
Look and Feel Suit
Lotus
Lovelace, Ada
MACH
Machine Language
Macintosh
Magnetic Drum
Mainframes
Management Information System
Manchester Mark I and "The Baby"
Mandelbrodt, Benoit
A Mathematical Theory of Communication
Mauchly, John William
MBONE
McCarthy, John
McCulloch, Warren S.
MCI WorldCom
McLuhan, Marshall
Mead, Carver
Mechatronics
Memory Hierarchy
Metcalfe, Robert
Metropolitan Area Networks
Microcomputer
Microprocessor
Microprogramming
Microsoft
Microsoft, U.S. v.
MIDI
MIME
Minicomputer
Minsky, Marvin Lee
MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
MIT Media Laboratory
Modem
Modula-2
Moore, Gordon
Moore School of Electrical Engineering
Moore's Law
MOS/CMOS
Motherboard
Motorola
Mouse
MPEG
MP3
MUDS and MOOs
Multics
Multimedia
Multiprocessor
Multitasking
Multithreaded Architectures
Music, Computer
MVS
Nasdaq
National Telecommunications and Information Administration
Natural Language Processing
NEC Corporation
Netiquette
Netscape Communications Corporation
NetWare
Network Computer
Networks
Neural Network
Neuromancer
The New Hacker's Dictionary
NeXT Computer
Next Generation Internet Initiative
Novell
Noyce, Robert
NSFnet
Oberon
Object-Oriented Programming
OEM
Olivetti
Olsen, Kenneth
On Computable Numbers
On Distributed Communications Networks
Open Architecture
Open Source
Open Systems Interconnection Reference Model
Operating System
Optical Character Recognition
Optical Computing and Optics in Computing
Optical Fibers
Optical Networks
Oracle Corporation
OS/2
Packet Switching
Papert, Seymour
Parallel Processing
Parametron Computer 1
Pascal
Pascal, Blaise
Pascal Calculator
Patch
PDP
Pentium
Perl
Personal Computer
Personal Digital Assistant
Personal Robotics
Piracy, Software
Plankalkül
PL/1
Plug and Play
Portal
Postel, Jonathan
Pretty Good Privacy
Printers
Privacy, Online
Probabilistic Algorithms
Prodigy
Productivity Paradox
Program
Project MAC
Prolog
Protocol
"A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection"
Public Key Cryptography
Punched Card Systems
Quantum Computer
QuickTime
RAID
RAMAC
RAM and ROM
RealAudio
Real-Time Systems
RealVideo
Recursion
Red Hat
Reduced Instruction Set Computing
Register
Register Renaming
Report Program Generator
Reverse Engineering
Ritchie, Dennis and Ken Thompson
Roberts, Lawrence G.
Robotics
Router
Ryad Series
SABRE
SAGE
SAP
Satellite Networks
Scanner
Schickard, Wilhelm
Search Engine
Searching and Sorting
Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator
Semiconductor
Sendmail
Shannon, Claude
Shareware
Shell
Siemens
Silicon
Silicon Graphics
Silicon Valley
SIMULA
Sketch of the Analytical Engine
Sketchpad
Slide Rule
Smalltalk
Software
Software, Cost of
Software Engineering
Sony Corporation
Spam
Speech Recognition System
Speech Synthesizer
Spreadsheets
Spread Spectrum
Stallman, Richard
Steele, Guy L., Jr.
Stibitz, George
Stored Program
Streaming Audio and Video
STRETCH and LARC
Stroustrup, Bjarne
Structured Programming
Structured Query Language
Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems v. Microsoft Corporation
SUN-1
Supercomputer
Sutherland, Ivan
SWIFT
TCP/IP
Telecommunications Act of 1996
Telnet
Ternary Computers
TeX
Texas Instruments
Thinking Machines Corporation
Threads
3Com Corporation
Time-Sharing
Token Ring
Topology, Network
Torres Quevedo, Leonardo
Torvalds, Linus
Toshiba Corporation
Transistor
Transputer
Trojan Horse
Turing, Alan M.
Turing Award
Turing Machine
Turing Test
Twisted-Pair Cable
Two's Complement
Unisys
UNIVAC
Unix
URL
Usenet
UUNET Technologies
Vacuum Tube
VAX
Very Large Scale Integration
Videotex
Virtual Community
Virtual Machine
Virtual Memory
Virtual Reality
Virtual Reality Modeling Language
Viruses
Vision, Computer
Visual Basic
VMS
von Neumann Architecture
von Neumann, John
WAIS
Wang, An
Wang Laboratories
Watson, Thomas, Jr.
Wearable Computer
Web Caching
Whirlwind
Wide Area Networks
Wiener, Norbert
Wilkes, Maurice V.
Williams Memory Tube
Windows and Windows NT
Wired
Wireless Application Protocol
Wireless Networks
Wirth, Niklaus
Women and Computer Science
Word Length
Word Processing
Workflow Software
World Intellectual Property Organization
World Wide Web
World Wide Web Consortium
Worm
Wozniak, Steve
Xanadu
Xerox
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
XML
X-Windows
Yahoo!
Y2K Problem
Zadeh, Lotfi
Z1, Z2, Z3, and Z4
Zuse, Konrad
