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• Posted Oct. 28, 2013, 10:29 a.m. - 11 years, 2 months 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 …

• 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 23^rd October 1911, in Bristol. Coombs obtained both a BSc and PhD …

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

Events in Computing History – October

1^st October

Year: 1847

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

Interesting Facts:

• Werner …

• Posted Sept. 28, 2013, 9 a.m. - 11 years, 3 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 28^{th …}

• 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 …

• Posted Sept. 13, 2013, noon - 11 years, 3 months ago

Mark Davis born 1952 – Inventor of Unicode

Mark Davis was born on the 13^th of September 1952, and is the president of the Unicode Consortium (non-profit …

• Posted Sept. 13, 2013, 10:21 a.m. - 11 years, 3 months ago

Programmers’ Day

Today is Programmers’ Day, a day that celebrates programmers and the clever work they do in developing new and ingenious …

• Posted Sept. 9, 2013, 1:36 p.m. - 11 years, 3 months ago

Dennis Richie, the man behind the UNIX Mask

Today, September 9th, marks 72nd birthday of Dennis Richie, the man behind not only UNIX, but also the C programming …

• Posted Aug. 30, 2013, 10:19 a.m. - 11 years, 3 months ago

Events in Computing History – September

September 2^nd

Year: 2008

Event: The first initial release of Google chrome web browser.

Interesting Facts:

• Although it was …

• Posted Aug. 25, 2013, 11:07 a.m. - 11 years, 4 months ago

Retro Memories: Windows XP

Believe it or not, August 25th marks 12 years since Microsoft released Windows XP to worldwide sale, not knowing at …