There is nothing more ubiquitous these days than the computer, the thinking machine that has hardwired itself to our lives. A quick Google search of "history of the ...

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In his report, Von Neumann outlined the architecture of a stored-program digital computer, an ancestor of most computers in use today. (Also that year, Grace Hopper, an admiral in the U.S. Navy, ...