Today in 1940, Bell Labs research George Stibitz became the first person to operate in computer in what fashion?

George Stibitz

September 8, 2011 By Chad Vander Veen

Answer:

Remotely.

At a meeting of the American Mathematical Society at McNutt Hall at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, Stibitz transmitted via phone line a series of math problems to a computer in New York City, which promptly returned the answers to Stibitz via teletype.

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