A good way to start a virtual fistfight among technology historians is to ask them to name the first digital electronic computer. Many would undoubtedly mention the University of Pennsylvania’s ENIAC, ...

The first modern electronic digital computer was called the Atanasoff–Berry computer, or ABC. It was built by physics Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, in 1942 ...

Newswise — Computing experts from around the world will assemble on the Iowa State University campus for the International Symposium on Modern Computing, Oct. 30 -- Nov.1, in the Scheman Building. The ...

Newswise — Iowa State University’s full-scale, working replica of the Atanasoff-Berry Computer, a groundbreaking machine built on the Iowa State campus from 1939 to 1942, will be part of a major new ...

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The history of computing, both hardware and software, is punctuated by patent wrangles. One of the most bitterly contested hinged on a meeting that took place eighty years ago, on June 14, 1941 when ...

In February 1946, J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly were about to unveil, for the first time, an electronic computer to the world. Their ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, could ...

John Atanasoff was getting nowhere. It was a bitterly cold night in 1937, and he was stuck in the physics building at Iowa State University agonising over his stalled idea for a machine to solve ...

The story of the lone inventor who fought all his life to be recognized as the originator of one of mankind’s most significant inventions. John Atanasoff, a physics professor at Iowa State College, ...

Computers have a long and complex history, and they've been around far longer than the internet. In the past, computers were used to perform mathematical and logical tasks that were difficult for ...