During WWII, a top-secret project to build the first programmable digital computer was underway at the University of Pennsylvania. The U.S. Army was looking for a faster way to run complicated ...

Charles Babbage is credited for designing and giving birth to the idea of the first automatic digital computer. During the mid-1830s, Charles developed plans for an Analytical Engine. Although it wasn ...

In the heart of Manchester, UK, a groundbreaking event took place in 1948: the first modern computer, known as the Manchester Baby, ran its very first program. The Baby’s ability to execute ...

The birth of the first modern computer is being celebrated on Friday 20 June 2008 at The University of Manchester and MOSI (Museum of Science & Industry). Digital 60 Day marks the 60th anniversary of ...

This cover image released by Grand Central Publishing shows "Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer" by Kathy Kleiman. (Grand Central ...

That there were no programming languages or even computer manuals did not stand in their way. Their program helped launch ENIAC to fame as the world’s first modern computer, but the women were never ...

Computers pervade every aspect of our culture. But only 50 years ago, they were considered futuristic devices that belonged to the scientific world, as BBC Four's Hard Drive Heaven documentary ...

Related: Read a free issue of How It Works here Also this issue, you can discover how the the first modern computer — Charles Babbage's Difference Engine — worked to perform complex ...

The Xerox Alto computer system, introduced in 1973, was one of the first computers designed for individual use and is regarded as the first modern computer to take advantage of a mouse. Moving into ...

The device is not the oldest electronic calculating device but is regarded as the first modern computer still capable of working. The machine was built and used by the Atomic Energy Research ...