People used to be computers. That is, for hundreds of years, computing was the work of humans, and very often women. Then, in the mid-20th century, machines began to take on the bulk of computing work ...

Futurists predict a rapture of machines, but reality beat them to it by turning computing into a way of life. Why? One answer is that consumers buy what is on offer, and manufacturers are eager to ...

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TECHNOLOGIES are often billed as transformative. For William Kochevar, the term is justified. Mr Kochevar is paralysed below the shoulders after a cycling accident, yet has managed to feed himself by ...

Leon Sterling works for Swinburne University of Technology. He receives funding from the Australian Research Council. He is the immediate past president of the Australian Council of Deans of ICT and ...

Among all recent inventions that have to do with MOOCs, the Georgia Institute of Technology’s online master’s program in computer science may have the best chance of changing how much students pay for ...

Bronx politicians ripped Gov. Kathy Hochul after she asserted that some black children in the borough don’t know what the word “computer” means. Hochul, speaking at an on-stage forum in California ...

“It’s racist and ignorant,” Michael Blake, a former New York assemblyman from the Bronx, told theGrio. A controversial remark about Black children in New York has put New York Gov. Kathy Hochul in the ...

Encrypting files, folders, and drives on your computer means that no one else can make sense of the data they contain without a particular decryption key—which in most cases is a password known only ...