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: Early Life Policarpo de Balzola was born on 26 January, 1813, in Irún, Basque Country, Spain. He was the third […]
Who Was Charles Babbage? Charles Babbage was a mathematician and polymath born in 1791, the son of a wealthy textile […]
Early Life The Jacob (Jakob) Auch, a German mechanic and clock-maker, is well known to us for his remarkable calculating […]
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Who Was John Vincent Atanasoff? John Vincent Atanasoff was an American engineer, physicist, mathematician, and computer scientist. He spurred major […]
Frank Baldwin Early Life and Education Frank Stephen Baldwin was born on 10 April 1838, in New Hartford, Connecticut, in the […]
Who was Norbert Wiener? Norbert Wiener was a famous American mathematician who took the field of math and expanded it […]
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: Who Was Alan Turing? Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist, codebreaker, and philosopher known for his Turing […]
Howard Aiken Howard Hathaway Aiken was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, on 8 March 1900, as the only child in […]
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Who was Anton Braun? Anton Braun was an instrument maker, mathematician, engineer, and mechanic. He invented one of the first […]
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In this section will be examined some people who have only a theoretical, but nevertheless rather important, place in the […]
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: Charles Stanhope The name of British statesman and versatile scientist Charles Stanhope (1753-1816) (see biography of Charles Stanhope), 3rd Earl […]
: Arthur Samuel After his work for Bell Laboratories since 1928, mostly on vacuum tubes, including improvements of Radar during World […]
: Who Is Claude Shannon? Claude Shannon was an American computer scientist, engineer, and mathematician. The ideas in his published papers […]
: Charles Peirce and Allan Marquand Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) was a famous American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist. Peirce was […]
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: Who Was John Von Neumann? John von Neumann (1903-1957) is best known as a mathematician and one of the leading […]
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: Who Was William Stanley Jevons? Born on September 1, 1835, William Stanley Jevons was a writer, English economist, and logician. […]
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: Alonzo Church (June 14, 1903 – August 11, 1995) was an eminent US mathematician and logician with works of […]
: Who Was Semyon Korsakov Semyon Nikolaevich Korsakov was a Russian military, an inventor in information technology, and a government official. […]
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The history of Microsoft Windows is one of the most important tech stories of the modern age. This operating system […]
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: Who was George Boole? George Boole was a self-taught mathematician, philosopher, and logician. The majority of his professional life […]
about WordStar Word Processor: The History of WordStar Word Processor: What to know Seymour Rubenstein and Rob Barnaby invented […]
: Who was Ada Lovelace Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician who wrote an algorithm for a computing machine in the […]
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About Tetris What Is Tetris: Explained Tetris is a puzzle video game requiring players to strategically move, rotate, and drop […]
about Spacewar: What Is Spacewar? Spacewar is a two-player game, with each player taking control of a spaceship and attempting […]
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and Facts about VisiCalc: What is VisiCalc: Explained VisiCalc was the first spreadsheet program released in 1979 for the Apple […]
5 Facts About The Unix Operating System What Is Unix: Explained Unix operating system is a multitasking, multiuser operating system developed in […]
and Facts about Sketchpad Computer: What Is Sketchpad Computer Program: Explained The Sketchpad Computer application, created as part of Ivan […]
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About Simula: What Is Simula: Explained Simula, an acronym for Simulation Language, is touted as the first object-oriented programming language […]
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The History of Aldus Pagemaker: A Complete Guide Four Facts About Aldus Pagemaker What Is Aldus Pagemaker: Explained Aldus Pagemaker is a desktop […]
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4 Facts about Photoshop What Is Photoshop: Explained Photoshop is a computer application software. Its primary use is to edit digital images. […]
No matter if you prefer Xbox, Playstation, Nintendo, or PC, there’s no denying that today’s video games are enormous, highly […]
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History of Linux In April 1991, Linus Torvalds, a 21-year-old student of computer science at the University of Helsinki, Finland, […]
The History of Mac OS: A Complete Guide Mac OS is the original proprietary operating system of Apple Inc., the […]
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4 Facts About Fortran What is Fortran: Explained Fortran refers to a general-purpose computer programming language ideal for scientific computing and numeric […]
Who Was Grace Hopper? Grace Hopper was an American computer scientist and U.S Naval Officer, best known for her work […]
The concept of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) — also known as transforming an image of printed text into a text […]
Who is Edgar F. Codd – Creator of the Relational Database Management System? Edgar Codd is the creator of the […]
4 Facts about DOS What is DOS: Explained DOS is an acronym for Disk Operating System that runs on the disk drive. […]
7 Facts about BASIC Programming Language Before Java, Python, and other programming languages, there was the BASIC programming language. It is […]
: Who Was Konrad Zuse? Konrad Zuse was a German civil engineer, computer scientist, inventor, and businessman. He was born in […]
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: The history of quantum mechanics and the famous Manhattan Project cannot be mentioned without Edward Condon. The role he […]
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The relay computers were huge, slow, expensive, and often undependable machines, but nevertheless, they deserve our attention, because they were […]
5 Facts about Sphere 1 Computer Sphere 1 Computer History The Spherical I was a personal computer designed by Michael Donald Wise […]
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5 Facts About The TRS-80: Where to Buy? The TRS-80 Model 4 is currently being sold on eBay under the category of […]
In November 1975, the electronics engineer Robert M. (Bob) Marsh founded the Processor Technology company in Berkeley, California. He […]
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: The MARK computers of Howard Aiken Sometime in 1936 or possibly in early 1937, the Harvard physician Howard Aiken (see […]
