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 history of computers from 1930 to the present is a story of extraordinary progress, tracing humanity’s journey from ...

The development of the personal computer was iterative and contingent; it was not a matter of destiny but of experimentation in many different directions at once. The Apple II beat out its ...

The history of computers in education has been variously characterized as an "accidental revolution" or "unthinking man and his thinking machines." Others have said that the computer revolution has ...

Haigh and Ceruzzi tackled the challenge of writing a definitive, comprehensive history of an ever-changing technology, by breaking the seventy-five years (1945-2020) of “modern computing” into ...

The invention of the computer is often articulated like a three-act play: the idea of the computer arrives, then there is the process of how to make the computer and, finally, there is the creation.

The Verge is teaming up with the Computer History Museum to explore critical innovations in technology history — beginning with the 40th anniversary of the Apple Lisa and the 50th anniversary of ...

Computers and artificial intelligence have changed our world immensely, but we are still at the early stages of this history.

MOUNTAIN VIEW — After being closed for two years because of the pandemic, the Computer History Museum reopened Saturday, and visitors could once again let their inner nerd geek out as they ...

A Brief History of Computer Concordances Michael Preston Computer-assisted study of folklore and literature was initiated shortly after World War II by Roberto Busa, S.J., who began preparing a ...