And so it was that from 1947 to 1951, the MIT Digital Computer Laboratory designed the Whirlwind I, the first digital computer at MIT.
World War II gave us not only the digital electronic computer, but also, thanks to radar and microwave technology, modern telecommunications.
The world's first successful digital computer could produce the same numbers in thirty seconds that it took a person twelve hours to figure with a calculator.
Mr Lobban also praised the technological achievements of Turing's colleagues - including Tommy Flowers, a post office engineer who designed and constructed the Colossus codebreaking digital computer.
Intel has already pushed Nvidia out of the business of supplying computer chipsets, the digital nervous system that all processors plug into to power PCs and laptops.
But really, its history goes back further than that all the way to the dawn of the computer industry, when digital data was first used for commercial purposes.
The computer as digital home entertainment hub is the tech world's endless come-on, but it has always seemed the kind of idea that only a crash-tolerant geek could embrace.
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Since the days of Alan Turing, the promise of a digital computer has been that of a universal machine, one that can be a word processor one minute and a robot brain the next.
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Apple has long been touting a digital-hub strategy in which the computer becomes a central device in a digital-entertainment universe.
When sketching is complete, the receiver is connected to the user's computer via USB to transfer the digital files.
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This patented technology ensures that only real fingerprints are read by converting the properties of the skin into digital data which are delivered to the host computer for analysis.
As the architect of multiple facets of the digital landscape, Apple expanded the definition of personal computer into the mobile realm with the iPhone and iPad.
Perhaps the reason I feel quite so liberated from the present while more and more attached, not to individually-recalled "good old days", but to a collectively attested and ever-present past, is because the hard drive of my computer is overloaded with digital images of the places I've been and the people I've met, all of them time-coded to a 10th of a second.
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Such growth has been fuelled by the expansion of digital-media work, like the design of computer games, in which Britain is a world leader.
The process turns digital models on computer screens into three-dimensional solid objects using plastics and other materials.
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The two companies are pushing for a new class of machines that combine the power of a personal computer and the portability of a personal digital assistant.
This digital wave started with a trickle called TiVo, one of the first computer-hard-drive-based digital video recorders (DVRs).
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) that runs the facility has for a decade been fitting it with state-of-the-art digital electronics, a new central computer, and high-speed transmission lines to carry the data that the 25m, 200-tonne dishes gather.
So Fastcase and others are paying Indian data-entry firms 40 to 60 cents per 1, 000 characters to "triple-key" the books into digital form, with three typists entering the text and a computer picking the version at least two agree upon.
And minicomputer vendors like Digital in turn dismissed the personal computer revolution spearheaded by Dell, Compaq and Hewlett Packard.
Of course, you can always use a streaming music service on a computer and output the digital signal from there without any special equipment.
With the HP DreamScreen's capabilities, it becomes the "fourth screen" in people's lives, extending the enjoyment of digital content beyond a computer, TV and mobile phone.
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Standards announced Tuesday by the Secure Digital Music Initiative -- a group of computer and music companies -- will finally clear the way for the major record labels to make their top tunes instantly available.
Among them are the computer wizards who interpret the digital streams of data from satellites.
First switched on in 1943, Colossus is now acknowledged as being the world's first electronic, digital computer.
One of the challenges with advertising in the digital world either on a computer or a cellphone is ensuring consumer privacy.
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More than ever, it seems, the digital artists who produce today's computer-generated blockbusters are bent on recreating a vision of reality that is likewise more vital and compelling than everyday life.
And, they found, the actual number of illicit digital copies of computer games accessed on BitTorrent is nowhere near as high as claimed, with only around 12.6 million unique peers worldwide sharing illicit copies of games.
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