Google has posted a look back at Colossus, the world’s first programmable electronic computer. Created by Tommy Flowers at the Bletchley Park decryption center in England, it was designed to ...

ENIAC is the world's first electronic computer. As a stand-alone device, it didn't support networking, although it ...

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 ...

It’s fitting, then, that the first general-purpose electronic computer, ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, was introduced to the world in 1946 on Valentine’s Day.

Eniac, which stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, like many other technological advances, was a by-product of the war. The dawn of the digital age was just around the corner ...

1941: Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, design the first digital electronic computer in the U.S., called the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC).

One story that stands out is that of Jean Jennings Bartik. She was not only one of the first women to program the first electronic computer — the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) — ...

In 1954 IBM engineers presented what would be the first successful commercial computer. The IBM 650 cost $500,000, compared to a million dollars for the UNIVAC. In eight years, 1,800 units were sold.

The first electronic computer purchased by a private business in the U.S. took some getting use to for the GE Appliance Park employees who began working with the device in Louisville in 1954.