He pioneers the use of binary math and boolean logic in electronic calculation. Colossus, a British computer used for code-breaking, is operational by December of 1943. ENIAC, or Electronic ...

It was only when I became a technology writer some years later that I realized that my landlord had invented the computer. In the early 1940s John Presper “Pres” Eckert Jr. was a grad student ...

Computer-assisted study of folklore and literature was initiated shortly after World ... but the programming problems were insurmountable and no "integrated" bibliography was ever produced. The ...

Women working as "computers" at NACA in 1949 gather air pressure readings. NASA Chou and others are working hard to change things. She has co-founded groups like Project Include that encourage ...

Bill Gates and Paul Allen form Traf-O-Data in 1971 to sell their computer traffic-analysis systems. 1972: Gary Kildall writes PL/M, the first high-level programming language for the Intel ...

A single IMP connected to one computer wasn’t much of a network. So it was very exciting in September 1969 when IMP-1 was ...

It was the first computer to have a microprogrammed control unit and a bit slice hardware architecture. A unit can be seen at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge. Here, an IBM storage ...

The “History of Computers” exhibition continues at Katara Cultural Village in Hall 2 of Building 18.The exhibition, which ...

(The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA) The home of the largest collection of computer artifacts in the world, which includes thousands of hardware components, images, films and videos.

Dvice recently published a visual history of the computer mouse, which is quite interesting. The first pointing device that relied on hand motions to move a cursor was created by the Royal ...

In 1961, a group of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) introduced something that would shape – ...

But Australia had an early computer scene, too, and [State of Electronics] has done a series of videos about the history of computers down under. The latest episode talks about SILLIAC ...