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2,000 Years Ago, the Greeks Built the World’s First Computer: Its Complexity Has Left Scientists Unable To Decode It
In 1900, a team of sponge divers off the Greek island of Antikythera surfaced with more than they bargained for. Among the ...
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2,000 years ago, Greeks built a machine like the first computer
More than two millennia ago, Greek craftsmen built a bronze machine that could track the heavens with a precision that would ...
The first modern electronic digital computer was called the Atanasoff–Berry computer, or ABC. It was built by physics Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, in 1942 ...
Scientists are one step closer to unlocking the secrets of the 2,000-year-old Antikythera Mechanism, considered the world’s first computer, thanks to a new computer-generated reconstruction of the ...
Scientists Have Been Baffled By This 2,000-Year-Old 'Computer' Since It Was Discovered 120 Years Ago
An amazingly complex computer from over 2,000 years ago has kept scientists on their toes since its discovery. The computer, which has been dubbed the 'first computer,' is what we call an Antikythera ...
A rare, operational Apple-1 Computer was recently put up for auction, and it ended up selling for $375,000. The Apple-1 was the first computer sold by Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, ...
Inspired by A New History of Modern Computing by Thomas Haigh and Paul E. Ceruzzi. But the selection of key events in the journey from ENIAC to Tesla, from Data Processing to Big Data, is mine. This ...
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Science history: Computer scientist lays out 'Moore's law,' guiding chip design for a half century — Dec. 2, 1964
At a small local chapter meeting of a professional society, Gordon Moore's talk laid out the rudiments of what would become ...
Way back at Morristown High School, around '69, we got an old IBM 1620. It was focused on scientific computation, in contrast to the 1133. Lots of blinking lights and code that allowed very primitive ...
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