The Computer History Museum, based in Mountain View, California, looks like a fine way to spend an afternoon for anyone ...

If you are interested in historical big computers, you probably think of IBM, with maybe a little thought of Sperry Rand or, if you go smaller, HP, DEC, and companies like Data General. But you ...

Everyone knows the digital computer - ones and zeros, millions of calculations per second - but long before that, humans ...

Meet the world’s oldest tech companies still operating today and how they reinvented themselves across centuries.

MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum developed Eliza in the mid-1960s. His views on artificial intelligence were often at odds with many of his fellow pioneers in the field. Illustration by Meilan Solly / ...

PC monitors are cheaper, faster, and more beautiful than ever. Here’s how to pick one that will suit your needs and budget. Most people treat their monitor like a printer. They just want it to work ...

Space and time aren’t just woven into the background fabric of the universe. To theoretical computer scientists, time and space (also known as memory) are the two fundamental resources of computation.

SALT LAKE CITY — A research team at the University of Utah uncovered a rare piece of computing history. Aleks Maricq, research associate in the Flux Research Group, discovered a version of the ...

At a small local chapter meeting of a professional society, Gordon Moore's talk laid out the rudiments of what would become "Moore's law", which would govern the electronics industry for a half ...

In 1984, a teacher in the village of Dodleston found messages on his offline computer—signed by someone claiming to live in the same house in 1541. What started as a suspected prank became one of the ...

Messages transmitted between two computers located about 380 miles apart would form the basis of what would become the internet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

October 24, 1988: Three years after leaving Apple, Steve Jobs prepares to launch the NeXT Computer, a machine he hopes will cement his reputation as a tech genius and blow away the machines produced ...