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A single modern computer chip can pack in tens of billions of transistors, each smaller than a virus

Transistors etched into the latest processor designs now measure just a few nanometers across, placing them well below the ...
Wired

Doug Engelbart, Who Foresaw the Modern Computer, Dies at 88

Douglas Engelbart --the father of the computer mouse and so many of the other basic concepts that drive our personal machines and the modern internet -- has died at the age of 88. According to an ...
Technical

ENIAC: 10 things you should know about the original super computer 65 years later

Sixty-five years ago today, the first newspaper accounts of the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer hit newsstands. From the Feb. 15, 1946 New York Times, a page one headline reads: ...
The Irish Times

Who invented the digital computer?

The simple question of who invented the digital computer has many possible answers. Several strands of development – both theoretical and practical – converged around 1950, and no single inventor can ...
Hackaday

Modern Computing’s Roots Or The Manchester Baby

In the heart of Manchester, UK, a groundbreaking event took place in 1948: the first modern computer, known as the Manchester Baby, ran its very first program. The Baby’s ability to execute stored ...
Silicon Valley

Gene Amdahl, ‘father’ of modern computer, dies

A physics whiz and a chief trailblazer of mainframe computing, Gene Amdahl went from a Depression-era childhood on a South Dakota farm to become one of the first rock stars of tech in Silicon Valley, ...