If you are interested in historical big computers, you probably think of IBM, with maybe a little thought of Sperry Rand or, if you go smaller, HP, DEC, and companies like Data General. But you ...

KATIE HAFNER: Hello Science Talk audience! I’m Katie Hafner, the host of Lost Women of Science. Each season is devoted to the life and work of one scientist who hasn’t gotten the recognition she ...

A New History of Modern Computing by Thomas Haigh and Paul E. Ceruzzi is a must-read for investors, entrepreneurs, executives, and anyone interested in understanding the technology that is embedded in ...

C. 2500 BCE: Sumerian abacus -- c. 700 BC: Scytale -- c. 150: Antikythera mechanism -- c. 60: Programmable robot -- c. 850: "On Deciphering Cryptographic Messages" -- c. 1470: Cipher disk -- 1613: ...

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 ...

Unexpected connections, powerful precedents, and big questions: the work of Michael Sean Mahoney on the history of computing / Thomas Haigh -- Shaping the history of computers. The history of ...

The history of computers began with primitive designs in the early 19th century and went on to change the world during the ...

Living Computers: Museum + Labs on First Avenue South in Seattle opened in 2012. The nonprofit closed in 2020 just before the pandemic and never reopened. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Living ...