John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist, inventor, the father of the first digital computer was born on 4 October 1903 in a family of Bulgarian immigrants in Hamilton, New York State.
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Sponsored by Google UK, a new gallery, “Women in Computing” has been opened at the National Museum of Computing in Britain.
Only 17 months after its release, further development work on Apple’s first computer, the Apple I was discontinued on 30 September 1977.
One of the best kept secrets of the ancient university town, Cambridge, is the Centre for Computing History, which is dedicated to present the history of home computers and consoles.
Android, the operating system for mobile phones and tablets, was released five years ago on 23 September 2008.
The theoretical basis for computer science and related technologies of our days was already laid down in the 1930s and 1940s, mainly by four scientists: John von Neumann, Claude Shannon, Norbert Wiener and Alan Turing.
With extended opening times during their Summer Bytes Festival, the British National Museum of Computing invited visitors to learn about 3D printing on the second weekend in August.
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The famous designer of typewriters and calculators, the founder of a company named after him, Camillo Olivetti was born on 13 August 1868 in Ivrea, a small town in Piemont, 50 kilometres from Turin, in northwest Italy.
News provider on hardware, Tom's Hardware has compiled a list of the most iconic machines in computing history.