The commonly used RSA encryption algorithm can now be cracked by a quantum computer with only 100,000 qubits, but the technical challenges to building such a machine remain numerous ...

ENIAC is considered the world's first fully electronic universal computer. It was programmed by six IT pioneers who were ...

80 years ago, ENIAC was presented to the world. Not the first, but the most important computer of its time.

When it comes to innovation in the computer science field, Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania play a huge role. Technology continues to advance rapidly. Take, for example, the CBS ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pieces of ENIAC, the world's first general purpose electronic computer, are on display at the University of Pennsylvania's ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- It's a piece of Philadelphia history that powered the future. The world's first electronic computer was born at the University of Pennsylvania. It was a room-sized machine built ...

WEST CHESTER, PA — Eighty years after the unveiling of the world’s first electronic, general-purpose programmable digital computer, a West Chester museum is marking the moment many historians credit ...

In a day and age in which we carry sophisticated mobile phones in our pockets, it's hard to imagine that the first computers ever built were so large they took up entire rooms. One of those massive ...

The first computers ever built were so large they took up entire rooms, something hard to imagine in a day and age when we carry mobile phones in our pockets. One of those massive machines, the ...