History of Computers: George Stibitz was born in 1904 in New York City. He worked at Bell Labs in New York.  In the fall of 1937 Dr. Stibitz used surplus relays , tin can strips, flashlight bulbs, and other common items to construct his "Model K" (K stands for kitchen table) breadboard digital calculator, which was designed to display the result of the addition of two bits.  In order to develop wide-area telephone networks, Bell Labs began working on a relay calculator based on the Stibitz model in April 1939. The first of this Complex Number Calculator ran on January 8, 1940; built by Stibitz and his team.

On September 11 of 1940, Stibitz made the world's first example of remote job, a technique that would revolutionize dissemination of information through telephone and computer networks. He used a teletype to transmit problems to the Complex Number Calculator and received the computed results.

Until the end of World War II, Stibitz served on the National Defense Research Committee, where he was working on important theories of computation.
After that he worked in Burlington, Vermont, where he developed a precursor of the electronic digital minicomputer in 1954.
In 1964 he joined the Dartmouth faculty and worked further on the development of computer systems.
He continued his research until 1983. He died when he was 90.