ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, was the first large-scale, electronic, digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems.

These are the computers that power our world today. Yet even as computer technology has matured to the point where it is omnipresent and seemingly limitless, researchers are attempting to use fresh …

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The UNIVAC I (Universal Automatic Computer) built by Remington Rand in 1951 was the first commercial computer that implemented von Neumann's major design concepts.

1939 Working from October through November, John Vincent Atanasoff, with help from graduate student Clifford E. Berry, builds a prototype electronic-digital computer that uses binary arithmetic.

Each generation of computer is characterized by a major technological development that fundamentally changed the way computers operate, resulting in increasingly smaller, cheaper, more powerful, …

These computers represented many advances in the field, although it is hard to pinpoint which in the series is the first “true” modern computer as we know them today.

Oct 21, 2019 · PDF | The earliest foundations of what would become computer science predate the invention of the modern digital computer.

Starting in the 1950s, computers got smaller over time • Four generations of vacuum tube computer circuits, showing the reduction in size during the 1950s

This paper is intended to provide an introduction to the study of the history of computing for someone who has a good knowledge of computer science, but only a limited knowledge of the history of …