Robert W. Taylor, one of the most important figures in the creation of the modern computer and the Internet, has died. He was 85. According to his son Kurt Taylor, the scientist died Thursday at ...

The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, “ENIAC,” was 8ft by 80ft and comprised of 40 black steel switches, vacuum tubes and wires. Physicists John Mauchly and Presper Eckert, who created ...

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 ...

The Modern Computer Turns Sixty Today by Gregory Sullivan — Friday, June 20, 2008, 10:00 AM EDT Comments ...

Although computers seem like a relatively modern invention, computing dates back to the early 1800s. Throughout computing history, there has not been a lone inventor or a single first computer.