Did you know that the first piece of computing equipment is over 4000 years old? Or that the first computers were as big as a house? Know how to ‘speak computer’, and the difference between ...

On Oct. 3, 1950, three Bell Labs scientists received a patent for a "three-electrode circuit element" that would usher in the ...

It has been over 300 years since the binary system was created, over 170 years since the first computer algorithm and over 70 years since ENIAC. What’s next? The internet has been around for over 25 ...

Computers were once considered high-end technology, only accessible to scientists and trained professionals. But there was a seismic shift in the history of computing during the second half of the ...

C. 2500 BCE: Sumerian abacus -- c. 700 BC: Scytale -- c. 150: Antikythera mechanism -- c. 60: Programmable robot -- c. 850: "On Deciphering Cryptographic Messages ...

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 ...

Scientists based in University College Cork (UCC), using one of the world’s most powerful quantum microscopes, have made a discovery that could have significant consequences for the future of ...