The first electronic computer was built during the 1940s by John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics at Iowa State University, and one of his students, Clifford E. Berry. But the ...
In November 1970 a patent was granted for a device dubbed an “X-Y position indicator for a display system”. Amidst the plethora of patents granted that year, you would’ve been forgiven for not ...
On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor. John Bardeen, ...
A computer that uses electronic synapses made of terminals with a top electrode (TE), dielectric layer (DL), and bottom electrode (BE) can emulate the human brain. A neural network using these ...
With iPhones and BlackBerrys everywhere, and Google Android devices on the rise, it’s easy to forget that Palm was the company that made it all happen. The PalmPilot is credited with popularizing the ...