K’NEX’s new TechnoK’NEX Computer Control System was on display at this week’s National Education Computing Conference (NECC) in Chicago. The Mac compatible system lets teachers and students in grades ...

When you think of Chernobyl (or Chornobyl, now), you think of the nuclear accident, of course. But have you ever considered that where there is a nuclear reactor, there is a computer control system?

Humans had to carry out all their machining processes by hand for centuries. Even precision tools had to be maneuvered very carefully, inch by inch, by people holding the devices personally. That all ...