The history of computers from 1930 to the present is a story of extraordinary progress, tracing humanity’s journey from ...

Vacuum tube computers, including the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) and the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), signaled the transition from mechanical to electronic computing in ...

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 ...

Inspired by A New History of Modern Computing by Thomas Haigh and Paul E. Ceruzzi. But the selection of key events in the journey from ENIAC to Tesla, from Data Processing to Big Data, is mine ...

Computing History, Part IIIPerhaps the most exciting convergence is happening via our growing partnerships with the College of Business. Programs in data science and MIS (management information ...

Haigh and Ceruzzi tackled the challenge of writing a definitive, comprehensive history of an ever-changing technology, by breaking the seventy-five years (1945-2020) of “modern computing” into ...

Episode 6 focuses on the 1980s and computing’s role in robotics and more. CMU’s oral-history archives continue to grow, said Bernabo.

Being human in a computer world “What does it mean to be a human in a world of computing?” Dan’l Lewin, president and CEO of the Computer History Museum asks in the latest StoriesHere podcast.

Although quantum computing is a nascent field, there are plenty of key moments that defined it over the last few decades as scientists strive to create machines that can solve impossible problems.

From the Computer History Museum Similarly unexpected is Samuel Caldwell from MIT. He was a student of Vannevar Bush, a giant in the academic-military-industrial universe. But Caldwell didn’t speak or ...

Computing History, Part IIThe Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, the second largest academic major at Michigan Tech, accounts for slightly more than half of the college's total enrollment.