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, ...

It's crazy to think that we could be just one invention away from having a drastically different future. And yet, that's exactly why we have our current reality. For centuries, people have been ...

"The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer" by Jane Smiley, Doubleday, 204 pages, $25.95 ...

When it comes to innovation in the computer science field, Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania play a huge role. Technology continues to advance rapidly. Take, for example, the CBS ...

The 1980s are forever immortalized in popular culture as an era of primitive digitization, with technological revolutions spanning everything from the artificial heart to the Space Shuttle. The ...