1945-1960

• 1946 - Mauchly and Presper leave the university of Pennsylvania and receive funding from the Census Bureau to build the UNIVAC
• 1947

  • William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain of Bell Laboratories invent the transistors.
  • discovered to make an electric switch with solid material and no need for a vacuum
• 1953 - Grace Hopper develops the first computer language , which eventually becomes know as COBOL
• 1954 - The FORTRAN programming language, an acronym for FORmula TRANslation, is developed by a team of programmers at IBM led by John Backus
• 1958 - Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce unveil the integrated circuit, known as the computer chip
• 1964 - Douglas Engelbart shows a prototype of the modern computer, with a mouse and a graphical user interface (GUI)
• 1969 - A group of developers at Bell Labs produced UNIX, an operating system that addressed compatibility issues.