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One of the developers of ENIAC. Biography (http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/ShortBiogs/E.html). [Summary?]

(JOSS) An early, simple, interactive calculator language developed by Charles L. Baker at Rand in 1964. There were two versions: ...

(IBM) The best known American computer manufacturer, founded by Thomas J. Watson (born 1874-02-17), known as “Big Blue” ...

(HTTP) The client-server TCP/IP protocol used on the World-Wide Web for the exchange of HTML documents. It conventionally uses port 80. Current version: HTTP 1.1, defined in RFC 2068, ...

The promulgator of the punched card. Hollerith was born on 1860-02-29 and died on 1929-11-17. He graduated from Columbia ...

(1789-1854) A German physicist who became Professor of Physics at Munich University, after whom the unit of electrical ...

The smallest number of colours necessary to colour the nodes of a graph so that no two adjacent nodes have ...

1. In software, a misfeature that becomes understandable only in historical context, as a remnant of times past ...

(COMAL) A language for beginners developed by Benedict Loefstedt and Borge Christensen in 1973 and popular in Europe ...

(Or “smash sum”) In domain theory, the coalesced sum of domains A and B, A (+) B, contains all the ...