The first electronic computer was built during the 1940s by John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics at Iowa State University, and one of his students, Clifford E. Berry. But the ...

The history of computers goes back over 200 years. At first theorized by mathematicians and entrepreneurs, during the 19th century mechanical calculating machines were designed and built to solve the ...

Silicon Valley history buffs know Ronald Wayne’s story well. He worked with Steve Jobs at Atari and when the agreement was signed to create Apple Computer on April 1, 1976 — 50 years ago next month — ...

Think you know supercomputers from sci-fi? Think again. See how these digital giants are solving real-world problems in ways ...

The history of computers is composed of an ever-growing number of consumer electronics devices, from game consoles to smartphones to music players, and the Computer History Museum's expansive catalog ...

A hacker has allegedly stolen petabytes' worth of data from a Chinese supercomputer, making it potentially the worst such ...

The watershed open-sourced design marks a milestone in open hardware innovation and cements its place in computer history. Backblaze, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLZE), the high-performance cloud storage platform ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Loureen Ayyoub reports on the Computer History Museum for Bay Area Beat. From U.S. currency to his presidential library skyscraper ...