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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

Presented by the Vintage Computer Federation, the festival on Aug. 4-5, at the Computer History Museum, will take visitors way, way back in time with exhibits, demos and talks about technology ...

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.