Science Software
One of the first types of computers in the world was invented by the Chinese thousands of years ago, and it was called the abacus. It helped to keep track of basic numerical calculations such as the addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. The science software that is used today in everything from a home computer, grocery stores, checking accounts, and to the digital pump readout when gasoline is purchased can be tied back to the sliding beaded abacus of long ago. The modern proliferation of computers and the science software that would later enable computers to store information and run at lightening fast speed is relatively a new idea. How computers came to dominate the modern world and that is another story involving war and business.
It is hard to imagine that computers and science software was first developed in the United States for war type applications. The first computer used for the army was aptly named the Electronic Numerical Integration and Computer (ENIAC) in 1946. It was programmed and feed information by the use of cards, and it was a large piece of computing ability. It was full of vacuum tubes and wires, but the problem with using it was that it could not store information, and had to be reprogrammed every time a new job for the computer was needed. Several more computers were developed which improved on ENIAC, and science software was on the track to involve business applications, and in the 1950s it became a reality. International Business Machines (IBM) dove headlong into developing several improvements on computer design and other type of science software – such as the programming language FORTRAN (Formula Translations). Time marched on and today’s computer development and science software have changed the world and it continues to modify how we live, work and educate our society.
Sequence Diagram
Draw sequence diagrams faster with this time-saving tool.