Wednesday, May 25, 2016

1952 - one of the first computer games

- Alexander Douglas designed one of the earliest computer games, a version of Tic-Tac-Toe called OXO.

The Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) computer is a multi-year research project conducted under the overall supervision of world-famous mathematician John von Neumann. The notion of storing both data and instructions in memory became known as the ‘stored program concept’ to distinguish it from earlier methods of instructing a computer. The IAS computer was designed for scientific calculations and it performed essential work for the US atomic weapons program.

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