At a small local chapter meeting of a professional society, Gordon Moore's talk laid out the rudiments of what would become ...
We’re teaming up with CHM to take a look at critical innovations in technology history, beginning with the 40th anniversary of the Apple Lisa and the 50th anniversary of ethernet. We’re teaming up ...
(The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA) The home of the largest collection of computer artifacts in the world, which includes thousands of hardware components, images, films and videos.
Mountain View, Calif., soon will offer technology enthusiasts something they can’t see anywhere else: an original copy of Apple’s first business plan. There’s also a prototype for an Apple computer ...
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 ...
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. This ...
Nothing stimulates creativity like a good crisis. The U.S. Constitution requires a census every decade. That was manageable in 1790 with fewer than 4 million Americans to tally. Not so simple a ...
Among the many facets of modern technology, few have evolved faster or more radically than the computer. In less than a century its very nature has changed significantly: today’s smartphones easily ...