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.
1 The first electronic computer was invented by John Vincent Ansoff. 2  He named it the Anatasoff Berry Computer, or the ABC. 3  Now, if we're talking technical knowledge and actual precursors to the PC-IBM may have accidentally spread it around when they allowed cloning of the PC architecture. 4  But they were not the first. The first computer was invented by a British scientist Charles P.Babbage in 1822 but completed in 1871 by Helmet P.Babbage (the son of Charles P.Babbage). The Difference Engine: The first of these devices was conceived in 1786 by J. H. Mueller. It was never built.