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 ...

Computer History Museum Releases Original AlexNet Code: Why It Matters Your email has been sent What is AlexNet, and why does it matter? The legacy of AlexNet in AI evolution Why open-sourcing AlexNet ...

In a very real sense, the Internet, this marvelous worldwide digital communications network that you’re using right now, was created because one man was annoyed at having too many computer terminals ...

Tech lovers headed to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View for the festival. Vintage computers from as early as the 1960s were showcased at the festival. The Commodore Amiga, a very popular ...

From a moth lodged in a computer's relay component in 1947 to costly failures in space and healthcare — a retrospective on ...

C. 2500 BCE: Sumerian abacus -- c. 700 BC: Scytale -- c. 150: Antikythera mechanism -- c. 60: Programmable robot -- c. 850: "On Deciphering Cryptographic Messages ...

In the 1950s, a Broadway play tackled the fear that “electronic brains” would automate humans out of jobs. The computer first appeared on the Broadway stage in 1955 in a romantic comedy—William ...

The annual Vintage Computer Festival kicks off Friday on the Peninsula. The event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View shows visitors the technology that launched Silicon Valley. The ...