#9: World’s First Cyberweapon. It’s a plot straight out of Hollywood: Mysterious hackers create a malicious computer code designed to seize control of critical equipment worldwide. It turns out it really happened. In June a computer security firm in Belarus found a sophisticated, aggressive, self-replicating program, or worm, on a client’s computers in Iran. #16: Google Whacked by Hack Attack. #51: Computer Rosetta Stone. Computer science. Computer science deals with the theoretical foundations of information and computation, together with practical techniques for the implementation and application of these foundations History[edit] The earliest foundations of what would become computer science predate the invention of the modern digital computer.
Machines for calculating fixed numerical tasks such as the abacus have existed since antiquity, aiding in computations such as multiplication and division. Further, algorithms for performing computations have existed since antiquity, even before sophisticated computing equipment were created.