• Posted Dec. 22, 2013, 8 a.m. - 11 years ago

Tommy Flowers and The Colossus

Tommy Flowers


 

Born: 22 December 1905

 

Died: 28 October 1998

 

Profession: Engineer

 

Nationality: British

 

Engineer Thomas Flowers (“Tommy”) was born …

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  • Posted Dec. 13, 2013, 8 a.m. - 11 years ago

HP Discover 2013 Recap

 

Barcelona was the location for the latest HP Discover Conference, with the event taking place from 10-12th December at …

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  • Posted Dec. 9, 2013, 9 a.m. - 11 years ago

Anniversary of the Gore Bill

 

Today marks the anniversary of the High Performance Computing Act of 1991 (HPCA) or Gore Bill as it is commonly …

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  • Posted Dec. 3, 2013, 4:45 p.m. - 11 years ago

Events in Computing History – December

December 2nd


Year:
1991

Event: Apple QuickTime was first released

Interesting Facts:

  • The first ever release of QuickTime, which …
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  • Posted Nov. 22, 2013, 4:38 p.m. - 11 years, 1 month ago

Happy Birthday Rasmus Lerdorf

Rasmus Lerdorf

 

Congratulations to Rasmus Lerdorf, the renowned programmer responsible for creating PHP scripting language, who celebrates his 45th birthday today.

 

Born …

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  • Posted Oct. 28, 2013, 10:29 a.m. - 11 years, 1 month ago

Bill Gates – 58 Years of Success

With Bill Gates celebrating his 58th birthday this month, we’ve taken the opportunity to reflect on some of the …

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  • Posted Oct. 23, 2013, 1:30 p.m. - 11 years, 2 months ago

Allen Coombs – Project Leader Colossus Mark 2

 

Allen William Mark Coombs was born on 23rd October 1911, in Bristol. Coombs obtained both a BSc and PhD …

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  • Posted Oct. 1, 2013, 2:40 p.m. - 11 years, 2 months ago

Events in Computing History – October

 

 

1st October

Year: 1847

Event: Siemens, the multinational engineering and electronics corporation, was founded in Berlin

Interesting Facts:

  • Werner …
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  • Posted Sept. 28, 2013, 9 a.m. - 11 years, 2 months ago

Seymour Cray – Pioneer of the Supercomputer

The CDC 6600 Supercomputer

 

Known as the father of supercomputing, Seymour Cray was born in Wisconsin, USA on 28th …

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  • Posted Sept. 25, 2013, 1:30 p.m. - 11 years, 3 months ago

One Hit Wonders

one time Inventors in Computing Technology

 

Today is “One Hit Wonder Day”, although we at Iceni don’t work in …

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