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Alan Turing created this universal machine that could compute anything computable. Everything was based on his own ideas.
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Hewlett-Packard aka (HP) was founded by David Packard and Bill Hewlett.
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John Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, designed a computer that can solve 29 equations simultaneously. This marked the first time a computer was able to store information in its main memory.
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John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert build the ENIAC. Considered the grandfather of digital computers, it fills a 20-foot by 40-foot room and has 18,000 vacuum tubes.
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Douglas Engelbart shows a prototype of the modern computer, with a mouse and a graphical user interface (GUI). This marks the evolution of the computer from a machine for technology that is available to the public.
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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak start Apple Computers on April Fool's Day and begin the Apple I, the first computer with a single-circuit board.
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PCs become gaming machines.
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The term Wi-Fi becomes part of the computing language and users begin connecting to the Internet without wires.
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Apple introduces the MacBook Pro, a mobile computer, as well as an Intel-based iMac.
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DARPA is developed new "Molecular Informatics" program that uses molecules as computers.
