Thus was born Setun, the world’s first ternary computer—a machine that did not merely tweak binary logic but openly defied it ...

At a low-key talk for a local professional society in 1964, computer scientist and chemist Gordon Moore laid out a prediction that would define the world of technology for more than 50 years. In the ...

Messages transmitted between two computers located about 380 miles apart would form the basis of what would become the internet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

A Lady Writing (a cover letter) by Johannes Vermeer (1665) (edit Shari Flores/Hyperallergic, courtesy Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington) Obtaining a computer science degree once seemed like ...

If you’re a parent, an educator, or just someone who’s been to school, you’ve probably developed an opinion about generative AI in classrooms. You might fear the demise of the five-paragraph essay, ...

With the rapid transformation of our lives by AI, one might wonder if there has ever been a societal force that has changed the way we work and communicate. One only has to look back at the last half ...

The annual Vintage Computer Festival kicks off Friday on the Peninsula. The event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View shows visitors the technology that launched Silicon Valley. The ...

Through the looking glass: In early 1995, IBM sent shockwaves through the laptop industry with the introduction of the ThinkPad 701, a device that appeared to be just another unassuming black ...

On a blustery spring Thursday, just after midterms, I went out for noodles with Alex and Eugene, two undergraduates at New York University, to talk about how they use artificial intelligence in their ...

In 1954, GE Appliance Park in Louisville became the first private business in the U.S. to buy a UNIVAC I computer. The 30-ton computer, which was first used by the federal government, cost $1.2 ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Chungin “Roy” Lee stepped onto Columbia University’s campus this past fall ...