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What was the first computer actually able to do?
The first computer didn’t show up looking like anything we’d call a computer now. There was no screen, no keyboard, no mouse, ...
A century before the dawn of the computer age, Ada Lovelace imagined the modern-day, general-purpose computer. It could be programmed to follow instructions, she wrote in 1843. It could not just ...
Years before software programmers sat poised over their keyboards in sleek, expansive tech offices, women built the foundations of modern computer programming— in less-than-glamorous conditions. For ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...
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