These historic computing labs teach kids what technology was like before phones, social media, and the cloud

The labs help students and researchers understand computing’s history and ...
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Computer History — Personal Computers, Computing and Internet!

The first electronic computer was built during the 1940s by John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics at Iowa State University, and one of his students, Clifford E. Berry. But the ...
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How Books Helped Make Computers Mainstream

“For computers to become widespread, people first had to imagine what they were, what they could do and why they mattered,” said McCray, who currently serves as the Kluge Chair in Technology and ...
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The computer book : from the abacus to artificial intelligence, 250 milestones in the history of computer science / Simson L. Garfinkel and Rachel H. Grunspan

C. 2500 BCE: Sumerian abacus -- c. 700 BC: Scytale -- c. 150: Antikythera mechanism -- c. 60: Programmable robot -- c. 850: "On Deciphering Cryptographic Messages ...
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The U.S. Must Win the Quantum Computing Race. History Shows How to Do It

The Dilution refrigerator is seen inside Amazon's quantum networking lab in Brighton, Mass., on June 28, 2023. The Dilution refrigerator is seen inside Amazon's quantum networking lab in Brighton, ...