Tiny holes on strips of paper once held entire programs and documents. Thanks to the efforts of CWI staff and volunteers, ...
The first electronic computer was built during the 1940s by John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics at Iowa State University, and one of his students, Clifford E. Berry. But the ...
Seventy years ago today (Thursday 21 st, June) a landmark development in the history of computing took place at The University of Manchester. At 11am on 21 June, 1948 the Small Scale Experimental ...
Software engineer Mateus Lima introduced seven representative scientific papers that have significantly changed the history of computer science and have had a strong influence on future generations, ...
On May 7, 1981, influential physicist Richard Feynman gave a keynote speech at Caltech. Feynman opened his talk by politely rejecting the very notion of a keynote speech, instead saying that he had ...
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Science history: Invention of the transistor ushers in the computing era — Oct. 3, 1950
On Oct. 3, 1950, three Bell Labs scientists received a patent for a "three-electrode circuit element" that would usher in the ...
In 2014, Stanford historian Thomas Mullaney placed a call he had been waiting to make for a decade. The woman who picked up, Lois Lew, was a Chinese-American who had spent most of her life running a ...
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