BLUE BELL, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Fifty years ago -- on June 14, 1951 -- the U.S. Census Bureau officially put into service what it calls the world's first commercial computer, known as UNIVAC I.

Some milestone moments in journalism converged 60 years ago on election night in the run between Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower and Democratic Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson. It was the first coast-to ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Engineers J. Presper Eckert and John ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Engineers J. Presper Eckert and John ...

In the 1950s, the UNIVAC mainframe became synonymous with the term "computer." For a generation of TV watchers in the 1950s, UNIVAC <i>was</i> America's first computer. But a recent biography of one ...

In response to the June 15 Associated Press article discussing UNIVAC's 50th anniversary: I'm a very mature "data processing person" (a seldom-used term in the PC time frame; in fact, most current ...

This article was initially written in 2009. Sending men to the Moon was not just about building gigantic Saturn V rockets and shooting them off into space. While it was the critical component of the ...

Much of the UNIVAC system was housed in a cabinet big enough for a person to walk in. There were more than 5,000 vacuum tubes and tanks of mercury where data was stored as sound waves for memory. Some ...