A century before the dawn of the computer age, Ada Lovelace imagined the modern-day, general-purpose computer. It could be programmed to follow instructions, she wrote in 1843. It could not just ...
The history of computers goes back over 200 years. At first theorized by mathematicians and entrepreneurs, during the 19th century mechanical calculating machines were designed and built to solve the ...
PROVING GROUND: The Untold Story of the Six Women who Programmed the World’s First Supercomputer. By Kathy Kleiman. Grand Central Publishing. 320 pages. $30. When the world’s first general-purpose, ...
In Bill Gates' new autobiography, "Source Code: My Beginnings" (published February 4 by Knopf), the computer pioneer and philanthropist writes of his formative years, and the experiences that led him ...
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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