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    Sixty years ago, on 16 December, scientists at Bell Labs--William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain--built the world's first transistor and nothing has been the same since.

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    Just as Unisys gets set to unveil a major upgrade to one of its high-end computers, Dell Computer has said it no longer plans to sell the 32-processor server under its own name.

  • Stargazers playing it coy over 2001

    After being left red-faced after the Y2K debacle, few commentators are willing to make bets on what 2001 will hold. After the crystal ball cracks that appeared last year, it's tough to predict the future.

  • ENIAC: Calculated history of the computer

    In early 1943, with the Allies fighting Japan and Germany in Europe, Africa and the Pacific, and the U.S. military looking for any advantage over the Axis powers, two men had an idea: Why not calculate each munition's ballistic artillery tables using a programmable, digital, electronic calculator?

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    Four of the pioneers of computer programming were honored at a conference here Monday night. And, contrary to the boys'-only image of programming, they were all women.

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