Britain's hush hush Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) intelligence and security organization has released new images never before made public of Colossus, the world's first digital ...

The first electronic computer was built during the 1940s by John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics at Iowa State University, and one of his students, Clifford E. Berry. But the ...

In a bold challenge to silicon s long-held dominance in electronics, Penn State researchers have built the world s first working CMOS computer entirely from atom-thin 2D materials. Using molybdenum ...

Seventeen years ago, when two University of Pennsylvania professors developed the first electronic computer, International Business Machines sniffed that it had no commercial future. But in the early ...

Are people becoming obsolete? A giant electronic brain has started cogitating at the University of Pennsylvania. It’s made of vacuum tubes like your radio and it can add up a column of figures a yard ...

Enormous dimensions, complicated military calculations, and thousands of vacuum tubes—this was the early supercomputer. Engineer Thomas Kite Sharpless gives a demonstration of the EDVAC at the ...

In 1954, GE Appliance Park in Louisville became the first private business in the U.S. to buy a UNIVAC I computer. The 30-ton computer, which was first used by the federal government, cost $1.2 ...

A mural celebrating a man who played a key role in the development of the modern computer will be unveiled at Bletchley Park. On August 15, the National Museum of Computing will reveal the mural ...