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 ...

It filled a room the size of a double garage and had only a fraction of the brainpower of the cheapest electronic organiser. But Australia's first computer, the fourth in the world, was a ...

It might not sound like the best music in the world, but Australia was the first by a matter of months at playing a tune on a computer. WE DON’T THINK twice about playing music via a computer – we ...

Past meets the present at CSIRAC In another connection to the past, Museum Victoria CEO, Dr Patrick Greene, said his own connection with early computer history was brought about when he lived in a ...

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 ...

Past meets the present at CSIRAC Today's new world of computer science met the old recently when senior executives from the CSIRO's ICT Centre paid a visit to the University of Melbourne to see CSIRAC ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...