THE ROAD AHEAD- BILL GATES

A Presentation by:

Pratigya Srivastava

BEGINNING OF THE INFORMATION AGE

Print libraries started to be scanned and stored on CD-

ROMs

1642-Blaise Pascal

invented mechanical calculator

CHARLES BABBAGE- conceived

possibility of mechanical device to perform

calculations

1930s – Alang Turing

invented general purpose

calculating machine

1930s – Binary circuits for computers invented

J. Presper Eckert and

John Mauchly invented

ENIAC

1945- von Neumann

architecture.

BEGINNING OF AN ERA (1960s)

BILL GATES WROTE HIS FIRST PROGRAM AT THE AGE OF THIRTEEN..!!!

Installed terminals for

kids at Lakeside School in Seattle

Developed a program in

BASIC

DEC launched PDP-8

minicomputer for $18000

INTEL released microprocesso

r chip 8008 and

announced 8080 chip later on

LESSONS FROM THE COMPUTER INDUSTRY DEC – Digital

Equipment Corporation taught him innovation

1970s- Wang word processing terminals

started replacing typewriters

IBM didn’t have a unified operating

system for its PCs in 1950s

The problem was solved by mid 1960s

More compatible machine becomes more

valuable to the customer

1981- IBM PC launched with MS-DOS operating

system

1984- APPLE launched Macintosh, a graphical

user interface operating system

INFORMATION APPLIANCES AND APPLICATIONS

All the information would be stored

digitally

1989- Tim Berners Lee invented World Wide Web

Lotus 1-2-3 proved a killer application for

IBM’s PC Aldus PageMaker was killer application for APPLE’s Macintosh

1990- First internet based service : IMDb Movie Database

1996- Multimedia laptop introduced, ATM and e-

Wallet introduced

THE CONTENT REVOLUTION

All information could be stored digitally

Information could be transmitted and retrieved instantly

Online multimedia encyclopaedias made interactive pages available to readers

User could reuse the space on Hard Drive later because of digital storage

Bulletin boards and newsgroups contributed a lot to the popularity of early internet service

Computer software used in movies like Jurassic Park, Toy story etc.

BUSINESS ON THE INTERNETCompanies used e-communications over the internet

to stay in touch with customers

Low cost hardware and software allowed small businesses to compete with MNCs

Connected PCs reduced overheads

At Microsoft, first e-mail system was installed in 1980s

First electronic spreadsheet appeared in 1978

Intranet web page replaced reports, manuals, forms etc.

Services like low cost videoconferencing was provided by many companies, like CU-SeeME

EDUCATION- THE BEST INVESTMENT

Computer would augment learning outside the classroom.

PCs would give individuals great latitude to exploit their styles of learning and areas of

interestWorkers would be able to keep up to date on

techniques in their fields

Word processors could perform multilingual spelling and grammar checks to remove errors

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