|
Purdue University Department Of Computer Science
The Purdue University Department of Computer Science is an academic department within Purdue University specializing in computer science. It was the first computer science department established in an American university. As of 2022, U.S. News & World Report ranked the department's undergraduate program 16th and graduate program 20th overall. History The first computer Purdue installed was an IBM card-programmed electronic calculator in 1952 for Carl Kossack's statistical laboratory. In October 1954, Alan Perlis proposed and acquired a more powerful Datatron 204. It was used to create the Purdue Datatron compiler, one of the first algebraic compilers created. In December 1960, Purdue Research Foundation and Remington Rand came to an agreement to install a Univac Solid State 80 allowing Purdue to be the first university to schedule its students' courses by a computer. Two years later it was replaced with an IBM 1401 and a planned complementary IBM 7044 was superseded by an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academic Department
An academic department is a division of a university or school Faculty (division), faculty devoted to a particular academic discipline. In the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth countries, universities tend to use the term Faculty (division), faculty; faculties are typically further divided into schools or departments, but not always. Disciplines The organization of faculties into departments is not standardized, but most U.S. universities will at least have departments of History, Physics, English (language and literature), Psychology, and so on. Sometimes divisions are coarser: a liberal arts college which de-emphasizes the sciences may have a single Science department; an engineering university may have one department for Language and Literature (in all languages). Sometimes divisions may be finer: for example, Harvard University has separate departments of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Chemistry and Chemic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IBM 7044
The IBM 7040 was a historic but short-lived model of transistor computer built in the 1960s. History It was announced by IBM in December 1961, but did not ship until April 1963. A later member of the IBM 700/7000 series of scientific computers, it was a scaled-down version of the IBM 7090. It was not fully compatible with the 7090. Some 7090 features, including index registers, character instructions and floating point, were extra-cost options. It also featured a different input/output architecture, based on the IBM 1414 data synchronizer, allowing more modern IBM peripherals to be used. A model designed to be compatible with the 7040 with more performance was announced as the 7044 at the same time. Peter Fagg headed the development of the 7040 under executive Bob O. Evans. A number of IBM 7040 and 7044 computers were shipped, but it was eventually made obsolete by the IBM System/360 The IBM System/360 (S/360) is a family of mainframe computer systems announced by IBM on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
