It was the first computer to have a microprogrammed control unit and a bit slice hardware architecture. A unit can be seen at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge. Here, an IBM storage ...

Computer-assisted study of folklore and literature was initiated shortly after World ... but the programming problems were insurmountable and no "integrated" bibliography was ever produced. The ...

It was only when I became a technology writer some years later that I realized that my landlord had invented the computer. In the early 1940s John Presper “Pres” Eckert Jr. was a grad student ...

Women working as "computers" at NACA in 1949 gather air pressure readings. NASA Chou and others are working hard to change things. She has co-founded groups like Project Include that encourage ...