How Humans Interact with Computers
From Punched Cards to ChatGPT: a brief history of Computer Aided Engineering
When we think about the history of Computer Aided Engineering the focus is usually on the evolution of computer hardware and the development of the simulation tools themselves. We talk much less about the considerable changes that have occurred to the way that we communicate with those tools.
In this blog, I explore the history of how humans interact with computers by splitting the last 60 or so years of CAE into 3 eras, each representing a step change in engineering productivity.
