Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

A team of Stanford engineers has built a basic computer using carbon nanotubes, a semiconductor material that has the potential to launch a new generation of electronic devices that run faster, while ...

Leading scientists and policy experts in China have called for greater support for basic research, saying it is a key to cultural confidence. At a TED-like event in Beijing on Saturday, astrophysicist ...

When a tipster came to us with the line “One dollar BASIC computer”, it intrigued us enough to have a good look at [Stan6314]’s TinyBasRV computer. It’s a small PCB that forms a computer running BASIC ...

In short: Australia will invest nearly a billion dollars to build the first commercially useful quantum computer in Brisbane. The federal and Queensland governments are each chipping in $470 million ...

The CL-32 is a work-in-progress pocket-sized PC that combines modern hardware with classic design inspired by systems from the 1980s like the TRS-80 Pocket Computer. While some details haven’t been ...

Stanford University’s Computer Science 123 course gives undergraduates a crash course in the future of robotics by having them build and then upgrade their AI-powered robot dogs. Now in its third year ...