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 ...

German engineer and inventor Konrad Zuse is considered as the inventor of the modern computer but was frustrated in his attempts to secure a patent ...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (AP) -- Was the world's first electronic computer invented over bourbon, under a painting of a nude woman, after midnight at Rock Island's Hunter's Club?

Was the world's first computer invented over bourbon, under a painting of a nude woman, after midnight at Rock Island's Hunter's Club? Kirwan Cox, a documentary filmmaker from Montreal, Canada, thinks ...