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==Lecture 1: Introduction== | ==Lecture 1: Introduction== | ||
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===Current Computer Design is the Result of an Evolutionary Process=== | ===Current Computer Design is the Result of an Evolutionary Process=== | ||
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[[Image:SteamboyTheMovie.png|right|200px]] In this course we are going to look at the computer as a tool, as the result of technological experiments that have crystalized currently on a particular design, the von Neumann architecture, on a particular source of energy, electricity, on a particular fabrication technology, silicon transistors, and a particular information representation, the binary system, but any of these could have been different, depending on many factors. In fact, in the next ten or twenty years, one of more of these fundamental parts that make today's computers could change. | [[Image:SteamboyTheMovie.png|right|200px]] In this course we are going to look at the computer as a tool, as the result of technological experiments that have crystalized currently on a particular design, the von Neumann architecture, on a particular source of energy, electricity, on a particular fabrication technology, silicon transistors, and a particular information representation, the binary system, but any of these could have been different, depending on many factors. In fact, in the next ten or twenty years, one of more of these fundamental parts that make today's computers could change. | ||
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