In 1946, one of the world’s first electronic computers was unveiled in Philadelphia, in the USA. It was called the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, or ENIAC, and was initially designed to ...

Seven decades ago today, Colossus Mk I attacked its first message written in the complex code used by Adolf Hitler and his generals during the Second World War. Colossus was built to speed up ...

Working replica of Colossus at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley park War veterans and their families are gathering at Bletchley Park today to celebrate the seventieth anniversary of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's a piece of Philadelphia history that powered the future. The world's first electronic computer was born at the University of ...

In February 1944, the world's first electronic computer began attacking encrypted Nazi messages, from the secret British codebreaking centre at Bletchley Park. Hear from one of the engineers tasked ...

The question of who invented the first computer and when was the computer invented has a complex answer that spans centuries of innovation. Many people assume a single inventor and a specific date, ...