"It’s such a shame we couldn’t have conversations about it," said his son Peter Martin, who is attending an event at the ...

Mr Flowers’ “suggestion” would go on to become Colossus, a machine which many believe was the first electronic digital computer ever made. It was so secret that many of the experts working ...

the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), the world´s first large-scale electronic general-purpose digital computer, developed at The Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the ...

The first electronic digital computers such as those you would have found in military installations or universities in the 1940s used vacuum tubes, sometimes in conjunction with relays or other ...

the work at Los Alamos was instrumental in spurring the development of electronic digital computers, with much owed to the theoretical efforts of John von Neumann. In late 1945, the first ever ...

Notably, the firm represented John Atanasoff in a nine-month patent trial in 1973, proving that he invented the first electronic digital computer, ENIAC. More recently, the firm has represented ...

The book, “The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computers” has, among other things, the first recorded use of a software library and the first API. Even the subroutine needed ...

But the history is even murkier. The existence of the Colossus machine was secret for almost three decades after the war, so ENIAC was incorrectly credited with being the first useful electronic ...

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external on Saturday to mark the 80th anniversary of the world’s first electronic, digital computer. His sister, Jane Martin, is hoping to meet other descendants of Colossus designer Tommy ...