A good way to start a virtual fistfight among technology historians is to ask them to name the first digital electronic computer. Many would undoubtedly mention the University of Pennsylvania’s ENIAC, ...
Who invented the digital computer? Depending on your definition, mathematical pioneers such as John von Neumann or Alan Turing might spring to mind, but its origin lies with US physicist John ...
“You know the story of the invention of the computer?” one character asks another midway through Jane Smiley’s best-selling 1995 novel “Moo.” The speaker, an animal scientist, dreams of striking it ...
At a little-noted White House ceremony Nov. 13, President Bush stepped off the platform to present a National Medal of Technology to an 87-year-old man named John V. Atanasoff whose work has changed ...
In 1941, physicist John Mauchly visited his colleague John Atanasoff at Iowa State University for a few days, during which they discussed the computer Atanasoff was working on, later called the ...
A legal dispute between Honeywell and Sperry Rand led to patents for the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) being declared invalid on October 19, 1973, belatedly crediting physicist ...
Novelist Jane Smiley has her own ideas about which invention ranks as the most important of the 20th century, said Michael Rosenwald in Bloomberg BusinessWeek. In this “graceful” new work of ...
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