Google started as a graduate school project . So it’s apt that the next film in our computing heritage series pays homage to the work of an...
“You’ve come a long way, Baby”: remembering the world’s first stored program computer
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Sixty-five years ago today, the Manchester Small Scale Experimental Machine —nicknamed “Baby”—became the earliest computer in the world to r...
Remembering WEIZAC: the beginning of computing in Israel
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Israel is now one of the world’s tech powerhouses, second only to Silicon Valley as a hub for startups , but it wasn’t always this way. Tod...
Marking a cultural shift in computing with EDSAC
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Computing’s early days are full of stories about great technical leaps forward. But sometimes what matters most isn’t a shift in technol...
Sharing stories of Bletchley Park: home of the code-breakers
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For decades, the World War II codebreaking centre at Bletchley Park was one of the U.K.’s most closely guarded secrets. Today, it’s a poigna...
Marking the birth of the modern-day Internet
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Today is the 30th birthday of the modern-day Internet. Five years ago we marked the occasion with a doodle . This year we invited Vint Cer...
A tribute to Turing, the father of modern computing
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“The past is a foreign country—they do things differently there.” It’s a saying that rings especially true in the world of technology. But w...