The Computer History Museum is more than a walk through the past; it is a reflection of how rapidly technology continues to ...

A New History of Modern Computing by Thomas Haigh and Paul E. Ceruzzi is a must-read for investors, entrepreneurs, executives, and anyone interested in understanding the technology that is embedded in ...

This book covers modern computing from the development of the first electronic digital computer through the dot-com crash. The author concentrates on five key moments of transition: the transformation ...

MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum developed Eliza in the mid-1960s. His views on artificial intelligence were often at odds with many of his fellow pioneers in the field. Illustration by Meilan Solly / ...

Hard disk drives sure have come a long way, baby. In the 1950s, storage hardware was measured in feet — and in tons. Back then, the era’s state-of-the-art computer drive was found in IBM’s RAMAC 305; ...

This Women’s History Month, we look at how women’s innovations have advanced the field of computer programming. View on ...

The story of modern computer ethics begins, strangely enough, in wartime. As Nazi Germany escalated its bombing raids on England, American mathematician and physicist Norbert Wiener volunteered his ...

In the annals of computer history, few names are as venerated as IBM. The company, eventually known as International Business Machines, remained on the bleeding edge of computer technology for decades ...

The historians of tomorrow are using computer science to analyze how people lived centuries ago. It’s an evening in 1531, in the city of Venice. In a printer’s workshop, an apprentice labors over the ...