Ray Tomlinson was born Raymond Samuel Tomlinson in Amsterdam, New York, April 23, 1941.  In 1971, he figured out an email protocol on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet, which enabled the sending of email to different hosts on the network, and not just to users on a single host computer. To achieve this, Ray […]

February 14, 2016 was the 70th anniversary of the commissioning of ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator & Computer)  which was developed right here in Philadelphia!  The project was commissioned in the wartime years, primarily to develop computing capability to determine the path of shells and bombs to increase target accuracy. ENIAC also assisted in the development […]