In May 1941, in the third year of what Berlin called the Greater German Freedom Struggle, Konrad Zuse powered up the Z3 ...

A Cornell professor designed a room-size network of sensors that represented a single neuron. He claimed it would grow wiser ...

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It’s kind of wild to think about how we got here with computers, right? From giant machines that needed specific codes to run to the apps on our phones, it’s been a journey. The way we tell computers ...

From AT&T to NASA, women working as computers performed the calculations that made modern science possible. In the early 1900s, computing joined teaching and nursing as one of the few careers open to ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

Several student groups organized Black History Month events across campus in February, even as some organizers said they struggled to secure funding after the College closed its diversity offices last ...

On April 1, 1976, Apple Computer was founded with a radical idea: that powerful computing should be personal. Fifty years later, Apple stands as one of the most influential technology companies in ...

Newer languages might soak up all the glory, but these die-hard languages have their place. Here are eight languages developers still use daily, and what they’re good for. The computer revolution has ...