Instead of an -- albeit complicated -- circuit, this chip was to be an entire mini-computer unto itself. Hoff designed the chip, and engineer Frederico Faggin set about building the design into a ...

Taschen has published a new book called The Computer, which traces the evolution of machines in computer history. Written by German author and graphic designer Jens Müller and edited by Brazilian ...

long before most of the technologies necessary to build it were even invented. That design was the Dynabook, and its author was computer scientist Alan Kay. Its intended audience was children.

The abacus, a simple counting aid, may have been invented in Babylonia (now Iraq ... Babbage's next idea is the Analytical Engine - a mechanical computer that can solve any mathematical problem.

At the beginning of the 20th century, when the transistor had not yet been invented, computers were analogue and made up of large mechanical gears. They were nothing like the electronic equipment ...

The invention of the computer is a tricky thing to pinpoint. There were some early attempts that were not well known and some early attempts that were deliberately secret. [Alan Turing]’s ...