If someone up and asked you “who invented the computer,” how would you respond? Bill Gates? Steve Jobs? Al Gore? Or say you’re more historically savvy, might you venture Alan Turing? Perhaps ...

Who invented the computer? British mathematician Charles Babbage came up with the idea for an automatic computer, powered by steam, in 1837. He finished designing his invention in 1856, more than ...

And who invented the Internet? Al Gore is the incorrect response. The answers aren’t simple. Isaacson takes 542 pages in his new book, “The Innovators,” to address them, marking ...

The company hired a California teacher named Gary Killdall to the write PL/M language for its Intellec-8 Development system. With this, Intel "had in fact invented a personal computer," Cerruzi ...

The story of how the computer on my desk got to me is one of the most peculiar tales of the twentieth century, and it demonstrates many tropes often considered merely literary -- peripeteia (a ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley turns her attention to a relatively unknown, yet historically important physics and mathematics professor in "The Man Who Invented the Computer: The ...

The Man Who Invented the Computer by Jane Smiley. Smiley casts a spotlight on John Atanasoff, a little-known physics professor at Iowa State who devised the world’s first digital computer.

Each computer was the size of a small house, and the simple message “LOGIN” crashed the network. Stanford only received the first two letters, according to History.com.

THE computer is the most versatile invention ever made, and most of us carry one around with us all the time. But who do we have to thank for creating the very first computer? Who invented the comp… ...