On Saturday evening, I was a very happy attendee of the Computer History Museum’s Fellow Awards, an inspiring annual event which celebrates the contributions of individuals whose work has changed the ...

This neat video from the [Computer History Archives Project] documents the development of the Aiken Mark I through Mark IV computers. Partly shrouded in the secrecy of World War II and the Manhattan ...

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 ...

Government-funded academic research on parallel computing, stream processing, real-time shading languages, and programmable ...

In 1947, engineers stared at the room‑sized Harvard Mark II computer in frustration as it kept malfunctioning. They finally ...

The Computer History Museum is more than a walk through the past; it is a reflection of how rapidly technology continues to ...

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- One of the most important pieces of computing history can be found inside a classroom in Pennsylvania. Inside the Moore Building on the University of Pennsylvania's ...

The rebuilt Colossus computer at the National Museum of Computing in Bletchley Park (all images courtesy Matt Parker) “For preservation sake, often the objects of our past become confined to clear ...