When it comes to innovation in the computer science field, Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania play a huge role. Technology continues to advance rapidly. Take, for example, the CBS ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- It's a piece of Philadelphia history that powered the future. The world's first electronic computer was born at the University of Pennsylvania. It was a room-sized machine built ...

Happy 80th anniversary, ENIAC! The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, the first large-scale, general-purpose, programmable electronic digital computer, helped shape our world. On 15 ...

In a bold challenge to silicon s long-held dominance in electronics, Penn State researchers have built the world s first working CMOS computer entirely from atom-thin 2D materials. Using molybdenum ...

Enormous dimensions, complicated military calculations, and thousands of vacuum tubes—this was the early supercomputer. Engineer Thomas Kite Sharpless gives a demonstration of the EDVAC at the ...

WEST CHESTER, PA — Eighty years after the unveiling of the world’s first electronic, general-purpose programmable digital computer, a West Chester museum is marking the moment many historians credit ...

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In 1954, GE Appliance Park in Louisville became the first private business in the U.S. to buy a UNIVAC I computer. The 30-ton computer, which was first used by the federal government, cost $1.2 ...

David J. Farber, a former CMU professor whose pioneering work on computer networking earned him the nickname "grandfather of the internet," died last month. He was 91.

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