On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor. John Bardeen, ...

Scholars in the U.S., Taiwan and China are buzzing about the discovery of an old typewriter, because the long-lost machine is part of the origin story of modern Chinese computing — and central to ...

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 ...

Excerpted from Beyond Eureka! The Rocky Roads to Innovating by Marylene Delbourg-Delphis, with a foreword by Guy Kawasaki (Georgetown University Press). Lord Byron’s daughter, Ada Lovelace (1815–52), ...

Computing before the computer / Michael Williams -- Information processing before the computer, 1865-1950 / James W. Cortada -- The new electronic technology / Brian Randell -- Calculating machines / ...

Among the more sombre gifts brought by the Enlightenment was the realisation that humans might one day become extinct. The astronomical revolution of the 17th century had shown that the solar system ...

David Heath is a List Writer from the UK specializing in video games, movies, TV shows, and the occasional anime. It’s been said that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. This ...

Intel Corp. (NASDAQ:INTC) and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) have teamed up to form an x86 ecosystem advisory group, aiming to shape the future of one of the world’s most widely used ...

From the Smithsonian National Museum of American History to the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, these are the best ...