UNIVAC, short for Universal Automatic Computer, was put into service 60 years ago this week. NPR librarian Kee Malesky says librarians have a... Now that we have handheld devices to do everything for ...

Go to updated and illustrated post. __1952: __Television makes its first foray into predicting a presidential election based on computer analysis of early returns. The Univac computer makes an ...

The year was 1951. New York Yankees star Joe DiMaggio announced his retirement from baseball. Universal Automatic Computer (UNIVAC), the first commercial digital computer, entered service at the U.S.

After achieving success designing the first electronic general-purpose computer, early computer pioneers J Presper Eckert and John Mauchly created one of the first computer companies, The ...

NPR librarian Kee Malesky has been dubbed "the source of all human knowledge," saving NPR hosts and reporters from themselves for 20 years. She shares her adventures from the reference desk in a ...