In the 1950s, a Broadway play tackled the fear that “electronic brains” would automate humans out of jobs.

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 ...

Liskov is an early computer science pioneer who earned the Turing Award for contributions to the practical and theoretical foundations of programming languages and system design. Training in ethics, ...

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 ...

Built on foundations laid by early computing pioneers, it represented one of the first attempts at a commercial computer built for humans, expressed in the form of changes like the “OK” button.

My first meeting with Bill Atkinson was unforgettable. It was November 1983, and reporting for Rolling Stone, I had gained ...

Computer pioneer Niklaus Wirth died on 1 January 2024, just weeks before his 90th birthday. The long-serving ETH Professor of Computer Science achieved world fame by developing the Pascal programming ...

The Computer History Museum located in Mountain View, California, today released the Apple Lisa source code, including its system and applications software. Today happens to be the 40th ...

The playwright’s description of Ada Lovelace in her script — “A woman of our time stuck in hers” — often applies to Gunderson’s heroines, who have included female pioneers of science.

Her collaborators there included the computer music pioneer Max Mathews, who provided music for some of her films, among them “Olympiad” (1971) and “Mis-Takes” (1972).