Definition of DIGITAL COMPUTER

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Recent Examples on the Web The study and design of memristors is usually linked with the subject of neurocomputers, a blanket term for both digital computers that imitate human brains and hypothetical machines made of human neural cells. — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, "Russians Build Device That Imitates Biological Memory," 25 Nov. 2019 The first modern electronic digital computer was called the Atanasoff–Berry computer, or ABC. — Doug Jacobson, The Conversation, "Curious Kids: What was the first computer?," 23 Sep. 2019 As Nobel laureate Bill Phillips said, quantum computers are as different from today’s digital computers as today’s computers are from an abacus. — Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, "Seven basic questions about quantum technology, answered," 18 Aug. 2019 One way to do this is to write down a mathematical model and then solve the equations on a digital computer. — Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine, "Quantum Computing Without Qubits," 22 Jan. 2015 Rockets and other armament are controlled with digital computers. — oregonlive.com, "Monroe: Sailors hit Willamette River to battle sturgeon with Fleet Week in full swing," 8 June 2019 Both were scheduled to attend a meeting four days later of the NSA’s Scientific Advisory Board—a program review of Project Lightning, the NSA’s secret project to dramatically increase the speed of digital computers. — Phil Lapsley, WSJ, "‘The Cryotron Files’ Review: Taking the Cold War to Subzero," 11 Oct. 2018 To compute something, the qubits need to be able to perform operations on each other, except the researchers don't plan to create discrete gates like a classical digital computer. — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, "How a string of giant atoms might bring quantum computers to physics labs," 8 Mar. 2018 All six of the first programmers of America’s first digital computer, Eniac, were women. — Christopher Mims, WSJ, "The First Women in Tech Didn’t Leave—Men Pushed Them Out," 10 Dec. 2017

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