The first modern electronic digital computer was called the Atanasoff–Berry computer, or ABC. It was built by physics Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, in 1942 ...

A good way to start a virtual fistfight among technology historians is to ask them to name the first digital electronic computer. Many would undoubtedly mention the University of Pennsylvania’s ENIAC, ...

Thanks to a road trip, the Quad Cities played a small but important role in the invention of modern computers. Shawn Beattie, educational technology manager at Augustana College in Rock Island, ...