Happy 80th anniversary, ENIAC! The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, the first large-scale, general-purpose, ...

When it comes to innovation in the computer science field, Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania play a huge role.

Britain's hush hush Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) intelligence and security organization has released new images never before made public of Colossus, the world's first digital ...

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 ...

Seventeen years ago, when two University of Pennsylvania professors developed the first electronic computer, International Business Machines sniffed that it had no commercial future. But in the early ...

Are people becoming obsolete? A giant electronic brain has started cogitating at the University of Pennsylvania. It’s made of vacuum tubes like your radio and it can add up a column of figures a yard ...