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 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 ...

Imagine you’re a copper miner in southeastern Europe in the year 3900 B.C.E. Day after day you haul copper ore through the mine’s sweltering tunnels. You’ve resigned yourself to the grueling monotony ...

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.

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

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

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

Many of the gameplay features we take for granted today had to start somewhere! Here are 9 games that invented famous ...

Sophisticated silk-weaving loom dating back to the Western Han dynasty used physical pattern cards which acted like ancient software.

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