Government-funded academic research on parallel computing, stream processing, real-time shading languages, and programmable ...

In 1947, engineers stared at the room‑sized Harvard Mark II computer in frustration as it kept malfunctioning. They finally ...

On May 7, 1981, influential physicist Richard Feynman gave a keynote speech at Caltech. Feynman opened his talk by politely rejecting the very notion of a keynote speech, instead saying that he had ...

This course will take place in person at 60 Turner Street. The room will be equipped with a HEPA air purifier. From punch cards to smartphones, the digital revolution has transformed the way we live, ...

How do you tell if a new technology product is a brilliant breakthrough? Listening to its creators doesn’t work: Tech companies have an annoying tendency to promote everything as a brilliant ...

A computer that processes analog data is known as an analog computer. Analog computers store information in physical quantities in a continuous format and use measurements to perform computation.

The Computer History Museum is more than a walk through the past; it is a reflection of how rapidly technology continues to shape everyday life.

From AT&T to NASA, women working as computers performed the calculations that made modern science possible. In the early ...