More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a ...

One thing has bucked the trend of rising prices: computing. Technological advances have underpinned a consistent drop in the ...

Want to learn who created AI and the real minds behind modern AI chatbots? Explore the fascinating history of AI development.

At a small local chapter meeting of a professional society, Gordon Moore's talk laid out the rudiments of what would become ...

The Cincinnati Reds found a new way to qualify for the postseason. In a bunch of different statistical ways, the Reds don't appear to be an elite team. But they found a way to put the pieces together ...

A Lady Writing (a cover letter) by Johannes Vermeer (1665) (edit Shari Flores/Hyperallergic, courtesy Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington) Obtaining a computer science degree once seemed like ...

With the rapid transformation of our lives by AI, one might wonder if there has ever been a societal force that has changed the way we work and communicate. One only has to look back at the last half ...

In 2014, Stanford historian Thomas Mullaney placed a call he had been waiting to make for a decade. The woman who picked up, Lois Lew, was a Chinese-American who had spent most of her life running a ...

The annual Vintage Computer Festival kicks off Friday on the Peninsula. The event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View shows visitors the technology that launched Silicon Valley. The ...

Through the looking glass: In early 1995, IBM sent shockwaves through the laptop industry with the introduction of the ThinkPad 701, a device that appeared to be just another unassuming black ...

One of the most consequential developments in the history of computing happened 50 years ago. It set Apple on course to becoming one of the most valuable companies on the planet and changed the face ...

In 1954, GE Appliance Park in Louisville became the first private business in the U.S. to buy a UNIVAC I computer. The 30-ton computer, which was first used by the federal government, cost $1.2 ...