The fundamental computer architecture in which the computer acts upon (executes) instructions temporarily stored internally in its memory (RAM). This flexibility is why computers are used for an ...

Sixty five years ago, in a cluttered lab in Manchester, UK, three scientists changed the world of computing forever. Working with a machine they’d built and nicknamed Baby, they ran the first ever ...

In today's digitally driven world, access to information appears limitless. But when you have something specific in mind that you don't know, like the name of that niche kitchen tool you saw at a ...

On June 21, 1948, at what was then known as the Victoria University of Manchester, software was born. On that day 65 years ago, a proof-of-concept computer called "Baby"—officially designated as the ...

Today, we’re going to look at the history of programming Since Joseph Marie Jacquard’s textile loom in 1801, there has been a demonstrated need to give our machines instructions. In the last few ...

The fictional form of the mental steps doctrine is inapplicable to digital computers and computer-implemented inventions for several reasons. First, prior to the widespread usage of the general ...

Even if UDC did not support the Solicitor General’s argument that “the functions themselves are the same procedures which a human being would perform in working the same computation,” there remains ...