On Saturday evening, I was a very happy attendee of the Computer History Museum’s Fellow Awards, an inspiring annual event which celebrates the contributions of individuals whose work has changed the ...

The first electronic computer was built during the 1940s by John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics at Iowa State University, and one of his students, Clifford E. Berry. But the ...

Introduction: People computing (not the Silicon Valley mythology) -- When students taught the computer -- Making a macho computing culture -- Back to BASICS -- The promise of computing utilities and ...

Not many places that preserve the past can boast of a giant video game collection to draw interest, but a museum in the world-renowned English city of Cambridge has that and much more. The Center for ...

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 ...

Hard disk drives sure have come a long way, baby. In the 1950s, storage hardware was measured in feet — and in tons. Back then, the era’s state-of-the-art computer drive was found in IBM’s RAMAC 305; ...

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 ...

The rebuilt Colossus computer at the National Museum of Computing in Bletchley Park (all images courtesy Matt Parker) “For preservation sake, often the objects of our past become confined to clear ...