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Computer | Definition, History, Operating Systems, Facts | Britannica A computer is a programmable device for processing, storing, and displaying information Learn more in this article about modern digital electronic computers and their design, constituent parts, and applications as well as about the history of computing
Computer science | Definition, Types, Facts | Britannica Computer science is the study of computers and computing, including their theoretical and algorithmic foundations, hardware and software, and their uses for processing information The discipline of computer science includes the study of algorithms and data structures and artificial intelligence
Computer - History, Technology, Innovation | Britannica Computer - History, Technology, Innovation: A computer might be described with deceptive simplicity as “an apparatus that performs routine calculations automatically ” Such a definition would owe its deceptiveness to a naive and narrow view of calculation as a strictly mathematical process
Computer - Technology, Invention, History | Britannica Computer - Technology, Invention, History: By the second decade of the 19th century, a number of ideas necessary for the invention of the computer were in the air First, the potential benefits to science and industry of being able to automate routine calculations were appreciated, as they had not been a century earlier
Personal computer (PC) | Definition, History, Facts | Britannica Personal computer, a digital computer designed for use by only one person at a time A typical personal computer assemblage consists of a central processing unit, which contains the computer’s arithmetic, logic, and control circuitry on an integrated circuit; computer memory; and various peripheral devices
Computer programming language | Types Examples | Britannica Computer programming language, any of various languages for expressing a set of detailed instructions for a computer The earliest programming languages were assembly languages, not far removed from instructions directly executed by hardware
Digital computer | Evolution, Components, Features | Britannica digital computer, any of a class of devices capable of solving problems by processing information in discrete form It operates on data, including magnitudes, letters, and symbols, that are expressed in binary code —i e , using only the two digits 0 and 1
History, Computer, Stands For, Machine, Facts - Britannica ENIAC, the first programmable general-purpose electronic digital computer, built during World War II by the United States and completed in 1946 The project was led by John Mauchly, J Presper Eckert, Jr , and their colleagues ENIAC was the most powerful calculating device built to that time
Computer chip | Definition Facts | Britannica Computer chip, integrated circuit or small wafer of semiconductor material embedded with integrated circuitry Chips comprise the processing and memory units of the modern digital computer (see microprocessor; RAM)
Computer program | Definition Facts | Britannica computer program, detailed plan or procedure for solving a problem with a computer; more specifically, an unambiguous, ordered sequence of computational instructions necessary to achieve such a solution