The fundamental computer architecture in which the computer acts upon (executes) instructions temporarily stored internally in its memory (RAM). This flexibility is why computers are used for an ...

Sixty five years ago, in a cluttered lab in Manchester, UK, three scientists changed the world of computing forever. Working with a machine they’d built and nicknamed Baby, they ran the first ever ...

Julian Bigelow, a mathematician and electrical engineer who was a pioneer in the fields of cybernetics and computing, died Monday in Princeton, N.J., where he lived. He was 89. In 1946, when John von ...

When I first got interested in computers, it was all but impossible for an individual to own a computer outright. Even a “small” machine cost a fortune not to mention requiring specialized power, ...

The fictional form of the mental steps doctrine is inapplicable to digital computers and computer-implemented inventions for several reasons. First, prior to the widespread usage of the general ...

On 21 June 1948, the world’s first stored-program computer ran its first program. The Manchester Baby eventually evolved into the Ferranti Mark I. Acorn used semi-custom chips from Ferranti in the ...

Britain’s oldest computer, The Harwell, is getting restored and switched back on in the hope of making it the oldest original functioning electronic stored program computer in the world. If successful ...