The Importance Of Information & Communication Technology -Part 2

 The Importance Of Information & Communication Technology In fact, skill in ICT has emerged as the most important technological skill. Everyone should have the basic computer literacy to survive in the 21 century. Only then, one may have access to its amazing world. Unless students acquire the ICT skills, they may not generate new knowledge by collecting, analysing, and evaluating information. [n fact, without the skill, they can never face the challenges in the 21•t century and position themselves in the knowledge based society. Great ICT Personalities Many scientists, visionaries and engineers have contributed significantly to the development of Information and Communication Technology. Cable connection and the wireless system, acceleration of computers' counting power and the development of microelectronics have ensured rapid growth of ICT. Charles Babbage (1791-1871), an English engineer and mathematician, first introduced and developed computer. He is regarded as the father of the modem computer. He invented Difference Engine In 1991 , in the Science Museum ofLondon, an engine was made according to the design of Babbage, and it worked properly as expected and later, he designed a calculating machine called Analytical Engine. Charles Babbage Ada Lovelace Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), the daughter of poet Lord Byron, first thought about how the process of calculation could be made more effective. She became interested in science and mathematics since her childhood and was encouraged by her mother. When she met Charles Babbage in 1833, she brought before him the concept of •programming' to use in his analytical engine. That is why Ada Lovelace is honoured as the pioneer of programming concept. Babbage delivered a lecture about his engine in 1842 at Turin University. Then Ada with the help of Babbage, explained the ways how the engine could work.