Chapter 3: Software and Information
Software science was born after WWII. At that time, the ENIAC computer contributed largely to the development of the first atomic bombs. Nevertheless, this primitive computing machine was not yet a real “computer” as we currently know. It was only concerned with the four arithmetic operations (with large numbers however) but was largely faster than a human could have done with a pencil and a sheet of paper! The machine performed ahead of humans in intellectual work…