Charles Babbage is credited for designing and giving birth to the idea of the first automatic digital computer. During the ...

1848: Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician and the daughter of poet Lord Byron, writes the world's first computer program. According to Anna Siffert, a professor of theoretical mathematics at ...

Computers have been on something of a miraculous journey since the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM) or 'Baby' ran its first program in Manchester in 1948. Here are just some of the ...

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"The day our first untested software worked on his ... With this, Intel "had in fact invented a personal computer," Cerruzi writes. "But the company did not realize it." But amateurs did.