When IBM released its729 Magnetic Tape Unit in 1959, Eisenhower was the sitting president. Alaska and Hawaii had just been admitted to the union as full-fledge states. No human had yet been in space.

Debugging computers in the 1950s sounds like it wasn’t an easy task. That’s one of the interesting facts from this fascinating talk by [Guy Fedorkow] about the Whirlwind, one of the first digital ...

Fixing design bugs and wrong wire connections in computer chips after they've been fabricated in silicon is a tedious, trial-and-error process that often costs ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. Tel Aviv and Palo Alto headquartered Rookout thinks it should. The company’s rapid production ...

SANTA CRUZ — Teenagers playing on their iPads might soon have a greater purpose than avoiding homework: debugging computer code in the name of national security. Researchers at UC Santa Cruz have ...