Software engineer Mateus Lima introduced seven representative scientific papers that have significantly changed the history of computer science and have had a strong influence on future generations, ...

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 ...

A computer does one thing at a time, even if it feels like it’s doing multiple things at once. In reality, it’s just ...

This ancient technological marvel was staggeringly far ahead of its time.

Although quantum computing is a nascent field, there are plenty of key moments that defined it over the last few decades as scientists strive to create machines that can solve impossible problems.

The Computer History Museum, a Silicon Valley-based museum that houses the historical heritage of computing, has announced the launch of OpenCHM, a digital portal that provides access to its vast ...

1960-69: The idea of cloud computing started to emerge before the Internet was invented. 1961: United States computer guru John McCarthy (inventor of the term artificial intelligence, or AI) first ...

This book covers modern computing from the development of the first electronic digital computer through the dot-com crash. The author concentrates on five key moments of transition: the transformation ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Computer technology has been employed for more than fifty years at the Smithsonian. Information Technology (IT) currently supports every facet of ...