Australia's first computer, the fourth in the world, was a supercomputer for its time (1949) — revolutionising everything from weather forecasting to banking, and playing the first ever computer music ...

The world's oldest operational computer celebrates its 53rd birthday this year. CSIRAC, named after the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (later renamed to CSIRO) which built the machine ...

The University of Melbourne has marked 60 years since becoming the first university in Australia to house a digital computer. But according to Professor Justin Zobel, the university has been doing ...

The CSIRO team was guided through a tour of CSIRAC by Dr Peter Thorne, who worked on CSIRAC when an undergraduate and decades later, while head of computer science at the University of Melbourne, ...

The new "Hail to the Historians" lunch series hosted by the Computer History Museum will kick off on Friday, June 13 at 12 noon. Bring your lunch and join us for a stimulating lecture. The fourth ...

Adjunct professor of computer science at The University of Melbourne and Associate Dean, Australian College of the Arts., The University of Melbourne We don’t think twice about playing music via a ...

AUSTRALIA’S oldest computer turns 60 next week, and it’s not as compact as an iPhone 6. We take a look back at the progression of computers in Victoria from monstrous to minuscule. But this wall of ...

In 1936, Turing published On Computable Numbers, With an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem, deemed the most influential document of the computer age. With this he laid the foundations for the ...

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