History: Electronic Digital Computation
- John Atanasoff: built first electronic
digital computer, Iowa State Univ.
(1930's)
- Colossus: digital machine cracked German
codes enabling the Normandy landing
(1940's)
- ENIAC: first general purpose digital
computer, Univ. of Pennsylvania (1946)
- John Von Neumann: designed the stored
program computer (1946)