On Computers
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The First General-purpose Electronic Computer
In 1937, Claude Elwood Shannon, then a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrote a Master’s thesis demonstrating that the electrical application of Boolean algebra could represent and solve any numerical or logical relationship. The use of electrical switches to do logic is the basic concept that underlies all electronic digital computers.
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