When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Taschen delves into the rich visual history of the computer with this new XL-scale book, edited ...

On May 7, 1981, influential physicist Richard Feynman gave a keynote speech at Caltech. Feynman opened his talk by politely rejecting the very notion of a keynote speech, instead saying that he had ...

In 1947, engineers stared at the room‑sized Harvard Mark II computer in frustration as it kept malfunctioning. They finally ...

Technology may be advancing and improving at a fearsome rate, but few developments today can match the design, charm and sheer weirdness of the inventions of yesteryear Today we can interact with ...

Seventy years ago today (Thursday 21 st, June) a landmark development in the history of computing took place at The University of Manchester. At 11am on 21 June, 1948 the Small Scale Experimental ...

This was formed from the idea that something is either true or false, at which he arrived by writing an algebra that incorporated logic into mathematics. In the 1930s, researchers saw that Boole's two ...

'Where did the computer go?" was the slogan Apple used in 2004 when it launched the first of its current range of iMac desktop computers. The question was designed to draw attention to the ingenuity ...

The exhibition at Cambridge's Centre for Computing History includes women from the earliest days of computing and includes events devoted to Victorian computing pioneer Ada Lovelace. She was an ...

There's nothing that dates more quickly than technology as mere sight of an old brick-size mobile phone proves. And any TV show or film that featured such a phone (think Friends or the 1987 Michael ...

Colossus was instrumental in reducing the time needed to decipher second generation (Lorenz) encoding devices used by the Germans from weeks to hours, which is said to have greatly helped allied ...