German engineer and inventor Konrad Zuse is considered as the inventor of the modern computer but was frustrated in his ...

The first mechanical computer is an Analytical Engine, which was designed by Charles Babbage, the Father of the Computer.

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Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM are all racing to build a quantum computer. But the technology's feasibility is as hazy as its physics.

An Ancient Computer That Predicted the Cosmos Discovered in a shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera around ...

The only known photographs of mathematician and computing pioneer Ada Lovelace have been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery just before they were expected to be sold to a private buyer.

"Wounded in the Civil War, Dr. John S. Pemberton became addicted to morphine while trying to treat his own illness. So, he ...

"He went way above budget to get the extra height for the walls, while all the townspeople were mad about the tax expenditure ...

In 1982, you could let a $500,000 store computer tell you whether Aunt Mary should get a sweater because she "looks like ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1840, the English mathematician ...

Scientists are building experimental computers from living human brain cells and testing how they learn and adapt.

Quilter's AI designed a working 843-component Linux computer in 38 hours—a task that typically takes engineers 11 weeks. Here's how they did it.