With a masterâs degree, the average annual starting salary was $64,100. The 25th percentile earned $51,500, the 50th percentile made $62,000, and the 75th percentile earned $73,900.
First mechanical computer or automatic computing engine concept. In 1822, Charles Babbage purposed and began developing the Difference Engine, considered to be the first automatic computing engine that was capable of computing several sets of numbers and making a hard copies of the results.
The first computer was the Atanasoff-Berry Computer, which was built from 1939 to 1942, according to a ruling issued by Federal Judge Earl R. Larson in 1973. This ruling invalidated the patent granted to Professors J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, who developed the ENIAC at the University of Pennsylvania.