Computing technologies include the major discoveries and innovations that made modern computer systems possible. This category explores hardware developments such as transistors, processors, memory and computer architectures, as well as software innovations including operating systems, programming languages, time-sharing and virtualization. Discover the technologies that shaped the evolution of computing.
FORTRAN, short for FORmula TRANslation, is one of the most important programming languages in the history of computing. Developed at IBM under the direction of John Backus, it allowed scientists and engineers to describe calculations in a form much closer to mathematics than to machine instructions.When the first FORTRAN system became available for the IBM…
