Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

Understanding the core principles of computer programming is the first step to writing effective code. Learning about ...

Do you know what’s inside of your smartphone or tablet? It’s home to an SoC, also known as System on a Chip. It’s quite powerful, more so than any desktop CPU in the 90s or early 2000s, which goes to ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, who translated the exhilarating power of computer science in the 1960s as the coinventor of BASIC, a programming language that replaced inscrutable numbers and glyphs with intuitive ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The beating heart of IBM’s quantum computer is a chip no bigger ...

We often imagine that human consciousness is as simple as the input and output of electrical signals within a network of processing units — therefore comparable to a computer. The reality, however, is ...