The first modern electronic digital computer was called the Atanasoff–Berry computer, or ABC. It was built by physics Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, in 1942 ...

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As the world suffers in the midst of a microprocessor chip shortage (if it hasn’t affected you yet, it will soon with higher car prices, long wait times for smartphones, and fewer laptops and PCs ...

Elise Diaz’s fifth-graders from O’Plaine School in Gurnee asked, “Whose idea was it to make the first computer?” After examining the facts, it took a judge to decide who should be credited with ...

Who invented the computer? For anyone who has made a pilgrimage to the University of Pennsylvania and seen the shrine to the ENIAC, the answer may seem obvious: John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert Jr., ...

Computer pioneer John V. Atanasoff, who waited for more than 30 years to receive credit for developing the first electronic computer, has died at the age of 91 of a stroke. Atanasoff conceived of the ...

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 ...

In February 1946, J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly were about to unveil, for the first time, an electronic computer to the world. Their ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, could ...

Ask most people who invented the light bulb, the airplane, or telephone and you will get an immediate answer: Edison, the Wright brothers, Bell. Ask them who invented the computer and you will get a ...

If you've got an iPhone or a laptop or a high-powered desktop -- any computer, really -- you can thank bourbon for all of them. Bourbon and soda, in fact, because that's what Iowa State College ...