A computer is a programmable device for processing, storing, and displaying information. Learn more in this article about modern digital electronic computers and their design, constituent parts, and applications as well as about the history of computing.
Bill Gates (born October 28, 1955, Seattle, Washington) is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur who cofounded Microsoft Corporation, the world’s largest personal-computer software company. Early life and education Gates wrote his first software program at age 13.
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Isaac Newton, the brilliant physicist and mathematician, revolutionized our understanding of the universe with his laws of motion and universal gravitation, forever changing the course of scientific inquiry.
Beginning in June 2004, Ken Jennings, a 29-year-old computer programmer from Salt Lake City, Utah, called the show’s bluff by becoming a nearly unstoppable force, winning 74 games in a row and racking up about $2.5 million in winnings, the highest earnings ever for a contestant in the regular season.
Beginning in 1973 with the U.S. Supreme Court ’s ruling in Roe v. Wade, Americans’ right to abortion was protected by a constitutional right to privacy. The Court reaffirmed this right in 1992 with Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey. While abortion rights appeared to many jurists to be precedent and “settled law,” anti-abortion activists and their sponsors never ...
As the head of the government of the United States, the president is arguably the most powerful government official in the world. The president is elected to a four-year term via an electoral college system. Since the Twenty-second Amendment was adopted in 1951, the American presidency has been
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One of history’s darkest chapters, the Holocaust was the systematic killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children and millions of others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II (1939–45).
