Patrick McCray’s new novel, “README: a Bookish History of Computing from Electronic Brains to Everything Machines,” cements itself as a book chronicling the histories of other books. Despite the ...

It's taken the work of many programmers to turn computers into something we carry in our pockets, and here are five ...

Programming didn’t begin with laptops or apps. It started with mechanical machines, punched cards, and handwritten logic.

Researchers found the only known surviving copy of Unix Version 4 on magnetic tape, a key milestone in the evolution of ...

The Salt Lake Tribune reports a University of Utah associate discovered a rare 1973 UNIX V4 software tape, believed to be the ...

As Louisiana prepares to implement a statewide computer science graduation requirement, students at the Louisiana School for ...

Early on in Robert Dickson’s tenure as the chief information officer for Wichita Public Schools, he reviewed the district’s technology every five years. The pandemic cut that to three years. Then, in ...

In today’s digital age, computers have become an integral part of our daily lives. From the moment we wake up to check our smartphones to the complex systems managing our cities’ infrastructure, ...

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 ...

Have you ever wondered how computers understand what we want them to do? It all comes down to programming languages. These special sets of instructions have changed a lot over the years, from really ...

The trove of papers from pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing was discovered in a loft. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A ...

The name of Poland’s first computer referenced the river running through Wrocław and the country’s one-thousandth anniversary. On 26 January 1961, the ELWRO electronics plant (Wrocławskie Zakłady ...