Dec 2, 2025 · Computer science emerged as an independent discipline in the early 1960s, although the electronic digital computer that is the object of its study was invented some two decades earlier.

Dec 22, 2025 · The history of the solving of these problems is the history of the computer. That history is covered in this section, and links are provided to entries on many of the individuals and companies …

Dec 22, 2025 · 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 …

Here is a list of women and nonbinary people who have made important contributions to the field of computer science.

Dec 22, 2025 · 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.

Oct 17, 2025 · The earliest programming languages were assembly languages, not far removed from the binary-encoded instructions directly executed by the computer. By the mid-1950s, programmers …

Dec 19, 2025 · natural language processing (NLP), in computer science, the use of operations, systems, and technologies that allow computers to process and respond to written and spoken language in a …

Dec 22, 2025 · Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor who is credited with having conceived the first automatic digital computer. He designed two calculating devices, the Difference …

Nov 7, 2025 · Computer science emerged as an independent discipline in the early 1960s, although the electronic digital computer that is the object of its study was invented some two decades earlier.

Nov 7, 2025 · Turing was a founding father of artificial intelligence and of modern cognitive science, and he was a leading early exponent of the hypothesis that the human brain is in large part a digital …