Journey through time and witness the remarkable advancements that have shaped the computing world we know today. From the earliest mechanical devices to the most advanced quantum computers of the ...

This book covers modern computing from the development of the first electronic digital computer through the dot-com crash. The author concentrates on five key moments of transition: the transformation ...

On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor. John Bardeen, ...

A tech twist to Philly’s 2026 heritage celebrations, eight decades after the pioneering Penn-built machine changed society forever.

Dreaming In Code is an excellent read as well, for more recent computing history. If you're familiar with professional software dev, it reads as a "haha oh yeah I've been there"; if you're not, it ...

On Oct. 3, 1950, three Bell Labs scientists received a patent for a "three-electrode circuit element" that would usher in the transistor age and the era of modern computing. When you purchase through ...

Inventing the computer -- The computer becomes a scientific supertool -- The computer becomes a data processing device -- The computer becomes a real-time control system -- The computer becomes an ...