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.
Edward B. Watters of Newberg, Oregon, points to a legal decision that also calls into question the traditional storyânamely, that the first digital computer was the ENIAC, a machine built in 1945 by J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly of the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania :tanasoffâs Computer,â Scientific American, August 1988 [not online]. Atanasoffâs first computer was a 12-bit 2-word machine running at 60Hz wall-plug frequency and could add and subtract binary numbers stored in a regenerative memory using a logic unit built with seven triode tubes.