A recently found computer artifact in a university storage closet dates back some 50 years to the foundations of our modern ...

Joseph Weizenbaum realized that programs like his Eliza chatbot could "induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal ...

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Ahead of Apple’s 50th anniversary, RR Auction is auctioning a trove of historic artifacts, including the first check written from the company’s original bank account.

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 ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It’s a computer, a monitor, an internet communicator, and one of the most iconic lines of tech in history. But ...

We’re teaming up with CHM to take a look at critical innovations in technology history, beginning with the 40th anniversary of the Apple Lisa and the 50th anniversary of ethernet. We’re teaming up ...

Apple computers have a reputation for being expensive, but even the most decked-out MacBook Pro has got nothing on the Apple Lisa desktop, which has just turned 40 years old. If you wanted a Lisa back ...

An auction to commemorate Apple's upcoming 50th anniversary includes Apple's first check and a rare prototype board. Personal ...

October 24, 1988: Three years after leaving Apple, Steve Jobs prepares to launch the NeXT Computer, a machine he hopes will cement his reputation as a tech genius and blow away the machines produced ...

In 1979, two M.I.T. computer-science alumni and a Harvard Business School graduate launched a new piece of computer software for the Apple II machine, an early home computer. Called VisiCalc, short ...