When you swipe across the apps on a smartphone, or stare at the computer screen while attending your classes during the ongoing pandemic, do you ever stop to marvel at their wonders? If we were to ...

In the heart of Manchester, UK, a groundbreaking event took place in 1948: the first modern computer, known as the Manchester Baby, ran its very first program. The Baby’s ability to execute stored ...

The registers and key elements of the Von Neumann architecture all play a part in how an instruction is processed in the fetch-decode-execute cycle.

The human brain similarly can handle information from a vast number of different contexts without having to be pre-programmed for each particular context that might occur Difference #8: Unlike ...

Seventy years ago was arguably the start of the modern computer age. A machine that took up an entire room at a laboratory in Manchester University ran its first program at 11am on 21 June 1948. The ...

A working replica of the first fully-operational stored-program computer is to be rebuilt in recognition of the computer scientists at Cambridge University who developed it. The project has been ...

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 ...

Sir Maurice Wilkes pioneered the practical use of computers in Britain. The "father" of British computing, Sir Maurice Wilkes, has died at the age of 97. Sir Maurice was the designer and creator of ...

Seventy years ago was arguably the start of the modern computer age. A machine that took up an entire room at a laboratory in Manchester University ran its first program at 11am on 21 June 1948. The ...