Who invented the digital computer?

German engineer and inventor Konrad Zuse is considered as the inventor of the modern computer but was frustrated in his ...
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Who invented the computer? Walter Isaacson thinks he knows

And who invented the Internet? Al Gore is the incorrect response. The answers aren’t simple. Isaacson takes 542 pages in his new book, “The Innovators,” to address them, marking breakthroughs in ...
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How was the wheel invented? Computer simulations reveal the unlikely birth of a world-changing technology nearly 6,000 years ago

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kai James, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) Imagine you’re a copper ...
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Computer scientist who invented cut, copy and paste has died

Larry Tesler, the Silicon Valley pioneer who created the now-ubiquitous computer concepts such as “cut,” “copy” and “paste,” has died. He was 74. He made using computers easier for generations as a ...
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How Was the Wheel Invented? Computer Simulations Reveal Its Unlikely Birth Nearly 6,000 Years Ago

Imagine you’re a copper miner in southeastern Europe in the year 3900 BCE. Day after day, you haul copper ore through the mine’s sweltering tunnels. You’ve resigned yourself to the grueling monotony ...
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How was the wheel invented? Computer simulations reveal the unlikely birth of a world-changing technology nearly 6,000 years ago

Imagine you’re a copper miner in southeastern Europe in the year 3900 B.C.E. Day after day you haul copper ore through the mine’s sweltering tunnels. You’ve resigned yourself to the grueling monotony ...