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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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).

The Vint Hill development honors early computer pioneers. ... Other pioneers honored with streets include Maurice Wilkes, Nicholas Wirth, Howard Aiken, Leslie Comrie and Adam Osborne.

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 ...

Celebrating their 40th anniversary, Adobe released the source code of PostScript v0.10 to the Computer History Museum. But before you ask, we tried and it won’t compile with GCC out of the box ...