“It’s just like planning a dinner,” the renowned computer scientist Grace Hopper once quipped about computing in a 1967 issue of Cosmopolitan. “You have to plan ahead and schedule everything so it’s ...

An installation view of “Radical Software: Women, Art and Computing 1960-1991.” Mareike Tocha, courtesy Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean and Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna “Don’t let ...

If you were selling computers in the early 1960s you faced a few problems, chief among them was convincing people to buy the fantastically expensive machines. But you also needed to develop an ...

Recently, I read the bestselling book "Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley" by Emily Chang. I found it fascinating, cover to cover. I was especially struck by a section about the ...

Today, we think of computer science as a field dominated by men, but women have a long and important history in the field. Ada Lovelace is considered the first computer programmer, Katherine Johnson, ...

Restoring vintage computers is the favorite task of many hardware hackers. Retrocomputing probably makes you think of home computer brands like Commodore, Amiga, or Apple but [Erik Baigar] is deeply ...