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University of Karlsruhe
2003

Overview
April 30
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June 4
June 11
July 2
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July 16
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April 30th: Introduction

Content

Definitions: Data, Networks, Multimedia; History of Telecommunication (Computer and Internet), Future of Telecommunication

Slides

Slides 1-73 (not relevant for examination!)
 Introduction.pdf.zip (4.405.034 Bytes)


Links

 Von Neumann Architecture
 CBN History: Radio/Broadcasting Timeline
 The Computer History Museum
 Intel Corporation Museum, Santa Clara, California, USA
 Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
 The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
 The History of Computers at Meeting Tomorrow
 Computer History Organizations and Museums
 Networks and Internet
 Internet Society: All About The Internet
 ITU Internet Statistics
References

• Ray Kurzweil
Homo S@piens, The Age of Spiritual Machines,
Viking Press, London, 1999. In german: Econ Verlag, 2000.
• Gordon E. Moore
Cramming More Components Onto Integrated Circuits,
Electronics, April 19, 1965.
• Robert M. Metcalfe
How Ethernet Was Invented,
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Volume 16, No. 4, Winter 1994, p. 84.

© 2003 Andreas Schrader & Martin Heike