It is this freewheeling agency, adds Dr McCall, that makes games—especially those that lean towards simulation rather than ...

German engineer and inventor Konrad Zuse is considered as the inventor of the modern computer but was frustrated in his ...

The historians of tomorrow are using computer science to analyze how people lived centuries ago. It’s an evening in 1531, in the city of Venice. In a printer’s workshop, an apprentice labors over the ...

The first mechanical computer is an Analytical Engine, which was designed by Charles Babbage, the Father of the Computer. Computers have transformed over the years as massive machines developed into ...

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 ...

Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has pulled the contents from a more than half-century-old tape found at ...

The history of AI shows how setting evaluation standards fueled progress. But today's LLMs are asked to do tasks without ...

Grace Hertlein’s collection is “a kaleidoscopic snapshot of the early decades of an art historical and technological phenomenon.” Courtesy Sotheby's It’s Geek Week at Sotheby’s—the auction house’s ...

The notion that we live as characters in someone else’s video game is irresistible to many, even outside of science fiction bookshelves. Googling the term “simulation hypothesis” returns numerous ...

Computer engineering is a broad field that sits in between the hardware of electrical engineering and the software of computer science. When computer engineers design hardware, they focus on what the ...