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 ...
How do you tell if a new technology product is a brilliant breakthrough? Listening to its creators doesn’t work: Tech companies have an annoying tendency to promote everything as a brilliant ...
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 ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Computer technology has been employed for more than fifty years at the Smithsonian. Information Technology (IT) currently supports every facet of ...
A recently found computer artifact in a university storage closet dates back some 50 years to the foundations of our modern ...
I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...
From left to right: John Chowning, Ed Colligan, Donna Dubinsky, Jeff Hawkins, and Brewster Kahle · GlobeNewswire Inc. Mountain View, California, Jan. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Computer History ...
Scientists are harnessing the alternative physics of the quantum realm to create computers of unprecedented power, potentially revolutionizing fields from drug discovery to climate modeling. Quantum ...
Mountain View, California, Jan. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Computer History Museum (CHM), the leading institution decoding technology—its computing past, digital present, and future impact on ...