Computing – Page 3

1822: The Difference Engine

English mathematician Charles Babbage was tired of typographical errors in...

A transposition cipher changes the position of the letters in...

Developed in 1956, the IBM RAMAC 350 was the first...

Most people find binary numbers difficult to work with. The...

Braille, developed by French inventor Louis Braille (1809–1852), is a...

It is possible to create images using long lines of...

The human brain is constantly searching for familiar patterns. So...

The D-wave quantum supercomputer has the same processing power as...

Scottish mathematician John Napier (1550-1617) created a manually operated calculating...

Colossus, built in 1943, was a computer that had a...