British engineers voted the Bombe, the computer of the Second World War, to be the “favourite artefact” ever, and thus it won the Engineering Award.
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The fourteenth of September 2000 marks an important month in the history of Microsoft in two respects.
Scott Fahlman, professor at the Department of Computer Science of Carnegie Mellon University, had a proposal to distinguish serious and funny messages on the institution’s message board with signs.
The Swedish polymath Per Georg Scheutz (1785-1873), who worked as a lawyer, publisher, journalist, translator, and inventor, was born on 23 September in 1785.
Larry Ellison, aged 70, has stepped down as Oracle’s chief executive officer. Ellison has headed the company since 1977, and he was the first and only one to be in this position at the company.
The first smart phone, a distinctly special product compared to the rest, was called a personal digital assistant.
In August, a series was launched in the computing history section of the Iceni Technology Blog to present achievements made by various countries in information and communication technologies
Google, one of today’s most significant giant companies in information and communication technology, celebrated its 16th birthday on 4 September.
The 20th of September in 1954 marks a day in computing history when IBM’s developers completed translation of, and ran a programme successfully written in FORTRAN language.
Thirty years ago, David Braben and Ian Bell, two young British programmers in their early twenties, wrote a space simulator of such complexity that would be unprecedented even today – although micro computers available at the time had humble intelligence.