ENIAC is considered the world's first fully electronic universal computer. It was programmed by six IT pioneers who were ...

On the evening of September 9, 1947, a strange silence fell over the Harvard Computation Laboratory. The Mark II electromechanical computerâ a colossal machine of whirring motors, clacking relays, and ...

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In 1964 30 sixth grade students from Westchester County did something nobody else had ever done before: they learned from a computer game. Today the computer’s usefulness as an educational tool has ...

Deep within the source code of this online multiplayer game lies an enigmatic number that puzzles and inspires experts to this day ...

In March 1975, The Eagles' Best of My Love, was the number one song, the top box office movie was The Godfather Part II, and All in the Family was the most popular TV show. However, I was most excited ...

Invented by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, BASIC was first successfully ...

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