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 ...
The Computer History Museum just launched OpenCHM, which digitizes its entire collection for public view and use.
On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor. John Bardeen, ...
Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator. By Keith Houston. W.W. Norton & Company; 384 pages; $32.50. To be published in Britain in October; £25 WHEN WAS the last time you used a ...
In the 1960s and ’70s, he developed the PLATO computer system, which combined instant messaging, email, chat rooms and gaming on flat-screen plasma displays. By Michael S. Rosenwald Donald Bitzer, an ...
Announcements about quantum computers are multiplying, yet this technology is still in its infancy, comparable to the era when transistors were replacing vacuum tubes. Researchers from several ...
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