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 ...
From AT&T to NASA, women working as computers performed the calculations that made modern science possible. In the early ...
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 ...
The Computer History Museum is more than a walk through the past; it is a reflection of how rapidly technology continues to ...
This neat video from the [Computer History Archives Project] documents the development of the Aiken Mark I through Mark IV computers. Partly shrouded in the secrecy of World War II and the Manhattan ...
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 ...
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 ...
Loureen Ayyoub reports on the Computer History Museum for Bay Area Beat. One year ago today, President Trump stood in the ...