Software

Software has played a central role in the evolution of computing, transforming computers from programmable machines into versatile systems. This category explores operating systems, programming languages, compilers, major software applications and the fundamental concepts that shaped modern computing.

  • FORTRAN

    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…