When that failed, Babbage decided to build an analytical engine. Analytical engine was a real parallel decimal computer which would operate on words of 50 decimals and was able to store 1000 such ...

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 ...

Doug Engelbart demonstrates in 1968 a word processor, an early hypertext system and a collaborative application: three now common computer applications. Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce found Intel ...

But man being man, invented the personal computer in the 70s and since then the world’s never been the same. For a long time, computers were safe for man. One saw them at a distance , that too ...

Our history dates back to 1957 and the creation of the Computing Laboratory in Newcastle. The Computing Laboratory housed our first computer (a Ferranti Pegasus). It fulfilled the twin roles of an ...

Until the early 20th century, a computer was a person who performed calculations by hand. But key innovations in technology saw machines take on this role—what were they, and who was behind them? In ...

Read more about Popular Culture 6 influential LGBTQ+ figures from British history Within her elaborate set of notes, Ada had laid out algorithms designed to be carried out by the machine, otherwise ...

The Swansea University’s History of Computing Collection (HOCC) was founded in Autumn 2007 by Professor John Tucker, in collaboration with Steve Williams of the University Library. HOCC is a part of ...

In 1961, Dr. Rex L. Hurst, Head of the then Department of Applied Statistics, acquired an electronic digital computer to manage work his department was doing for the Dairy Herd Improvement Association ...

How can we help you? The College of Computing and Data Science (CCDS) is Nanyang Technological University, Singapore’s 6 th and newest academic college. The College’s roots began in the 1980s as a ...