Inventing the electronic computer was not an easy process

Kimmo Huosionmaa

When we are thinking about one of the most important tools of science, the electronic computer, we must realize that inventing that machine was not easy. The first electronic computers or ENIAC-units were created for making nuclear weapons and code-breaking duties for Los Alamos National Laboratories. But before the computer was ready to operate, the creators of that tool must create the command language and the way to input those commands in for the electronic calculating unit.

Electronic computers are the ultimate tool for calculating long series of calculations, and that's why it can make very sharp calculations for parabolic forms. The ability to calculate long series makes computers a very effective tool for code-breakers. Also, computers can comp databases with extreme speed, and that makes it a very effective tool for controlling the passengers and access to places like movie theaters.

And from the ENIAC is a long journey to modern computers, and there were two things, what revolutionized this thing. The keyboard, what makes those systems or their input panel seems like the copywriter, allowed that the computer can be used by a single user. And the second one was TV, what allowed to use computers without paper.

Those things are the most interesting parts of computers, and the last thing, what opened the world of computing for every person in the world was the mouse. The tracking tool, what allowed to draw with the computer and later the graphical interface has also based the use of the mouse. When we are thinking about computers and the men, who are working with them, there are many times some problems to realize that those persons are extreme professionals. And the computing is not very dramatic science, there is nothing happening outside the screen of the computer. But when computer control robots, it can be extremely dangerous for every organism in this planet.

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