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How supercomputers paved the way for laptops and chatbots
EDVAC (1949) At the end of World War II, there was widespread interest in creating the “universal computer” envisioned by the British scientist Alan Turing. American theorist John von Neumann published a pioneering article in 1946. In it he pointed out …