1. Outstanding researchers
and breakthroughs in
infocommunications.
First year graduate student
Paul Serikov
pavel.p.serikov@gmail.com

2. Infocommunications
=
Information
+ technologies
telecommunication
● New branch of economics, which develops as a
unit of information and telecommunication
technologies.
● Developing services, which are based on
network applications

3. Infocommunications
relatively young field

4. Actually it was started from mathematicians ...
th
19 century
Fourier transform and Fourier's Law
Joseph Fourier

5. 1895 Radiowaves
Alexander Popov
Guglielmo Marconi & Nikola Tesla

6. Model of a general purpose computer
# algorithm
# computer architectures
1935
# computation
# artificial intelligence
Alan Turing Howard Aiken
John von Neumann

7. 1950s
Mobile phone

8. 1950s Information theory
# cybernetics
# bit as a measurement unit
Claude Shannon

9. 1956 Transistor
William Shockley John Bardeen
Walter Brattain

10. 1956 First hard disk

11. 1956 Integrated circuit
Jack Kilby

12. 1963 Quantum heterostructure
Zhores Alferov

13. 1969 ARPANET
● 1983 — ARPANET → Internet (TCP/IP)
● 1984 - DNS

14. First mass personal computer and
multi-task operation systems with GUI
● 1976 — foundation
of Apple Inc.
● Revenue $156.508
billion (2012)
Steve Jobs

15. First mass operating system
● 1975 — foundation
of Apple Inc.
● Revenue $73.72
billion (2012)
Bill Gates

16. Linux core,
1991 first free operating system
Linus Torvalds

17. 1997 First mass search engines
Sergey Brin Larry Page

18. 1997
Arkady Volozh Ilya Segalovich

19. 2001 Wikipedia
Jimmy Wales

20. 2004 first social networks
Mark Zuckerberg
2006
Pavel Durov

21. 2013
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