COMPUTERS AND
BUSINESS
EFTHIMIOS ATSALOGLOU
HISTORY I
• 1801: Joseph Marie invents loom
• 1822: Charles Babbage conceives steam-driven
calculating machine
• 1890: Herman Hollerith designs punch card system
• 1936: Alan Turing presents universal machine (Turing
machine)
• 1937: Atanasoff designs computer (solves 29 equations
simultaneously)
HISTORY II
• 1943 – 1944: John Mauchly, J. Presper Eckert build
ENIAC
• 1946: They build UNIVAC
• 1947: William Shockley, John Bardeen, Walter Brattain
invent transistor
• 1958: Jack Kilby, Robert Noyce unveil integrated circuit
• 1964: Douglas Engelbart shows prototype of GUI
HISTORY III
• 1969: Production of UNIX
• 1970: Intel unveils first DRAM chip
• IBM invents “floppy disk”
• 1975: Bill Gates, Paul Allen found Microsoft
• 1976: Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak found Apple
• 1979: MicroPro releases WordStar
• 1981: First IBM computer
HISTORY IV
• 1985: First dot com domain name on March 15
• 1990: Tim Berners – Lee develops HTML
• 1996: Sergey Brin, Larry Page found Google
• 1999: Wi – Fi used by users
• 2001: Mac OSX and Windows XP are out
• 2003: First 64-bit processor (AMD Athlon 64)
• 2004: Mozilla Firefox 1.0
HISTORY V
• 2005: YouTube is founded, Google acquires Android
• 2006: MacBook Pro introduced
• 2007: iPhone out in market
• 2009: Microsoft launches Windows 7
• 2010: Apple unveils iPad
• 2011: Google releases Chromebook
• 2015: Apple Watch in market, Microsoft releases
Windows 10
COMPUTERS PROBLEMS IN BUSINESS?
• Accumulation of large amounts of data
• Glitches and problems to software
• Too much dependence on computers
• Decreased productivity in some cases
• Computer system hacking and cracking
• Promotion of robots
SOLUTIONS
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Effective ways to store data and back up plans for software
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Software renewal and test control
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Back up plan if computers vanish or become useless
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Software to record worker activity or reward for productive
workers
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Better security software and more advanced software handlers
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Increase human productivity. Seminars on task automation, time
management
PROBLEM CONTINUITY IN FUTURE?
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More effective ways to store data and make data collection,
retrieval and access faster.
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Attention on updating software and software control
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Bigger problem. People getting fired. Many things done by
robots
No change  Moving into IOT era
More strict to unproductive employees
No change  Governments, organizations, different causes
continue to exist and emerge
RESOURCES
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Chang, Andrea, and Tracey Lien. "Outages at NYSE, United Airlines, WSJ.com Expose
Digital Vulnerabilities." Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2015. Web. 01
Feb. 2016.
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Zimmermann, By Kim Ann. "History of Computers: A Brief Timeline." LiveScience.
TechMedia Network, 08 Sept. 2015. Web. 01 Feb. 2016.
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