In a very real sense, the Internet, this marvelous worldwide digital communications network that you’re using right now, was created because one man was annoyed at having too many computer terminals ...

University College London provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. British computer scientist and Internet Hall of Fame inductee Peter Kirstein died in January 2020 at the age of ...

An Irish startup has created the world's first silicon-based quantum computer — it can still integrate seamlessly with classical computing in data centers. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

Decades before its rediscovery in the Anglophone world, autocomplete was invented for putting Chinese characters into a computer. This is an excerpt from The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the ...

A team of Australian and international scientists has, for the first time, created a full picture of how errors unfold over ...

As an elder millennial who was in middle and high school in the 1990s, I have strong core memories of the space formerly known as the "computer room." It was where massive desktop towers ruled the ...

This was the slogan hung outside a Harvard dorm room in 1965, marking the headquarters of the first computer matchmaking service in the US. Decades before Tinder and OK Cupid, there was Operation ...

Universities across the country are scrambling to understand the implications of generative A.I.’s transformation of technology. Universities across the country are scrambling to understand the ...