Sentence examples for computer historians from inspiring English sources

Computer historians have described Fortran as the software equivalent of the transistor.

The consensus of computer historians is that while Babbage was clearly the first to conceive of the flexible machine that foreshadowed the modern computer, his work was forgotten and was then conceptually recreated by Turing a century later.

Computer historians say that when the first production model of the Atlas was turned on in 1962, the UK's scientific computing capacity instantly doubled.

"Don't let the bozos get you down," he said, trotting out some well-worn statements from technology naysayers, such as IBM chairman Thomas Watson's assertion in 1943 that the total worldwide market for computers was "maybe five" (computer historians question the authenticity of the unsubstantiated quote), and Western Union's inability to see a use for the telephone.

Hard to tell, said George Dyson, a computer historian and author of "Turing's Cathedral" (Random House, 2012), which chronicles computer research at Princeton in the 1950s.

Dag Spicer, a computer historian, did the authentication, and acted as a kind of go-between in the sale from Ms. Keim to Mr. Smith.

"These women, being the first to enter this new territory, were the first to encounter the whole question of programming," said Paul E. Ceruzzi, a computer historian at the Smithsonian Institution.

After his death, computer historian Paul Ceruzzi said it best in my opinion: "Ritchie was under the radar.

The team, led by computer historian Jason Scott, has experience pulling down content from not only Geocities, but also other sites and services like Friendster, MobileMe, and Fortune City.

"Maurice Wilkes was the first to turn these ideas into a fully-functional electronic stored-program computer when the Cambridge Edsac ran its first program in May 1949," said computer historian Professor Simon Lavington.

As a computer historian, Scott surely felt right at home.