This neat video from the [Computer History Archives Project] documents the development of the Aiken Mark I through Mark IV computers. Partly shrouded in the secrecy of World War II and the Manhattan ...

A computer does one thing at a time, even if it feels like it’s doing multiple things at once. In reality, it’s just switching between tasks very quickly. But a VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) ...

With the rapid transformation of our lives by AI, one might wonder if there has ever been a societal force that has changed the way we work and communicate. One only has to look back at the last half ...

C. 2500 BCE: Sumerian abacus -- c. 700 BC: Scytale -- c. 150: Antikythera mechanism -- c. 60: Programmable robot -- c. 850: "On Deciphering Cryptographic Messages ...

To kick off Apple’s 50th anniversary celebrations, the Computer History Museum will host a panel later tonight featuring several veteran Apple executives, moderated by journalist David Pogue. Here’s ...

Software engineer Josh Dersch is one of them. He spends hours in his garage trying to bring decades-old machines back to life and estimates that he has more than 200 vintage computers and related ...

Silicon Valley history buffs know Ronald Wayne’s story well. He worked with Steve Jobs at Atari and when the agreement was signed to create Apple Computer on April 1, 1976 — 50 years ago next month — ...

A Lady Writing (a cover letter) by Johannes Vermeer (1665) (edit Shari Flores/Hyperallergic, courtesy Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington) Obtaining a computer science degree once seemed like ...

“The freshmen now entering Drexel [in the early 1980s] will spend the greater portion of their professional lives in the 21st century, in an environment in which the computer will be an everyday, even ...

Last week the Video Game History Foundation announced that it had acquired the full archives of the 1980s game publication Computer Entertainer and would be making them available through the Digital ...