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Project Whirlwind comes home

A compilation of pioneering digital computing research conducted at MIT in the 1940s and 1950s has been transferred back to the Institute from MITRE Corporation. Project Whirlwind was a precursor to modern-day computers, first tackling parallel digit processing, random-access and magnetic core memory.

Take a look back at the early years of computing in The History of Computing, which covers the early use of computers as scientific instruments.