The simple question of who invented the digital computer has many possible answers. Several strands of development – both theoretical and practical – converged around 1950, and no single inventor can ...

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 ...

Novelist Smiley explores the story of the now mostly forgotten Atanasoff, a brilliant and engaged physicist and engineer who first dreamed of and built a computational machine that was the prototype ...

U.S. inventor Douglas Engelbart was one of the visionaries of the computer age. Besides inventing the computer mouse, his insight laid the... Douglas Engelbart Dies At 88, Invented Computer Mouse ...

On 1982, "Time" magazine named the personal computer its "Machine of the Year." The news devastated Steve Jobs.

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The history of AI shows how setting evaluation standards fueled progress. But today's LLMs are asked to do tasks without ...

Silk-weaving loom dating to Western Han is world’s oldest known ‘computer hardware’ with corresponding ‘software’, China science body says.

He was completely unaware that this one minor character would attain a massive cult following amongst Star Wars fans, purely ...

Her dad Anthony Pratt, a professional musician, invented the game in the kitchen of his Birmingham home to stave off the ...

A new microchip-sized device could dramatically accelerate the future of quantum computing. It controls laser frequencies ...

Many of us begin a new year hoping to become better versions of ourselves. Some aim to improve their health, others focus on ...