The first computers ever built were so large they took up entire rooms, something hard to imagine in a day and age when we carry mobile phones in our pockets. One of those massive machines, the ...

A full-scale replica of ENIAC, the world's first general-purpose computer, has been built to mark its 80th anniversary next month. Although not functional, the 500 square foot model visually simulates ...

Tom Burick has always considered himself a builder. Over the years he’s designed robots, constructed a vintage teardrop trailer, and most recently, led a group of students in building a full-scale ...

A bank of blinking lights indicate the mysterious processes going on within: That classic symbol of a computer has lasted long after computers evolved into friendly desktop tools. This was not a dream ...

Vol. 07 John von NeumannEven with the same mathematics, the machines were differentIf you summarize it in one sentence as "a von Neumann-type computer predicted the weather," it becomes ambiguous who ...

Sixty-eight years ago this month, construction began quietly on ENIAC, the first electronic computer that was built for the U.S. Army to speed up the calculation of ordnance trajectories for soldiers ...