The first electronic computer was built during the 1940s by John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics at Iowa State University, and one of his students, Clifford E. Berry. But the ...
In 1947, engineers stared at the room‑sized Harvard Mark II computer in frustration as it kept malfunctioning. They finally ...
On Saturday evening, I was a very happy attendee of the Computer History Museum’s Fellow Awards, an inspiring annual event which celebrates the contributions of individuals whose work has changed the ...
Government-funded academic research on parallel computing, stream processing, real-time shading languages, and programmable ...
New award program recognizes honorees for significant contributions in shaping the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial ecosystem ...
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 ...
Loureen Ayyoub reports on the Computer History Museum for Bay Area Beat. One year ago today, President Trump stood in the ...
A computer does one thing at a time, even if it feels like it’s doing multiple things at once. In reality, it’s just ...