A look back at the room-size government computer that began the digital era Steven Levy Philadelphia schoolchildren are drilled on the names of its accomplished citizens. William Penn. Benjamin ...

The first mechanical computer is an Analytical Engine, which was designed by Charles Babbage, the Father of the Computer.

Computer-assisted study of folklore and literature was initiated shortly after World War II by Roberto Busa, S.J., who began preparing a concordance to the works of Thomas Aquinas in 1948, and ...

The Osborne 1 landed in June 1981, two months before International Business Machines Corporation released its IBM Personal Computer and ignited the long-running feud between Apple and IBM. The company ...