As seen in earlier articles, the only two possible states of information for digital electronics are true and false. Be it an electric current, a numeric datum, or a variable of any kind, the system’s ...

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It’s hard to believe today, but in the 1940s, the earliest computer technicians actually worked at the bit level. If a computer made a mistake and the technician determined it wasn’t from a burned-out ...

In his report, Von Neumann outlined the architecture of a stored-program digital computer, an ancestor of most computers in use today. (Also that year, Grace Hopper, an admiral in the U.S. Navy, ...