Electronic computers represent and process data through electronic signals and currents. These computers have evolved significantly over the past halfcentury. Today's computers are faster, smaller, more efficient, and more powerful than their...

The evolution of computer technology between 1930 and 1950 was strongly influenced first by mathematical theoreticians and then by military needs during World War II. During this twenty-year span, the early pioneers of modern computer science found...

Early modern computers are typically grouped into four "generations." Each generation is marked by improvements in basic technology. These improvements in technology have been extraordinary and each advance has resulted in computers of...

The history of computing is longer than the history of computing hardware and modern computing technology and includes the history of methods intended for pen and paper or for chalk and slate, with or without the aid of tables. The timeline of computing...

RAUL ROJAS and ULF HASHAGEN (eds.), The First Computers: History and Architectures (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000. Pp.xii + 457; illus. H/back ISBN 0 262 18197 5, [pound]26.50). The First Computers: History and Architectures is the fifteenth volume in the prestigious History...

Even if you don't own a desktop personal computer or spend any time in front of a keyboard, you can't get away from computers. They are everywhere, recording your credit history, making sure paychecks are issued, mortgage bills sent, telephone calls connected, and executing...

The first modern digital computers were developed in the 1940s for military purposes that arose during World War II. These computers filled entire rooms, and at rates of a few thousand calculations per second, they took hours to perform complex...

Describes the history of the computer in the United States. Examines how computers have influenced individuals and world events.