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.

Amid the synth explosion of the 1970s, one digital keyboard was released, which would spell the end of the analogue era. Read ...

Six female programmers were selected to help assemble and program the first electronic computer, ENIAC; their names are, sadly, lost to history. Meanwhile in Britain, Stephanie Shirley (who ...

Ten years later he would turn this revolutionary idea into a practical plan for an electronic computer, capable of running any program. After two years at Princeton, developing ideas about secret ...

The wartime code-breaking effort in Bletchley Park led to Colossus, the first programmable electronic computer. Various university campuses in Britain and the US were home to first-generation ...