The pioneers of computing
The pioneers of computing 1914: Leonardo Torres Quevedo’s first electromechanical analytical machine, 1928: Von Neumann’s MinMax algorithm, 1936: Turing machine, 1939: start of construction of Mark I, 1942: decryption of the Enigma machine by Alan Turing, 1954: creation of FORTRAN, the first high-level programming language implemented on a computer, 1955: introduction of the IBM 650 computer, 1962: invention of the computer word , 1970: founding of Xerox…