On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor. John Bardeen, ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Carnegie Mellon University will hire a researcher from the Library of Congress to help it decode a collection that includes two WWII German Enigma machines. The university wants to ...

(The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA) The home of the largest collection of computer artifacts in the world, which includes thousands of hardware components, images, films and videos.

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 ...

The history of science and technology links many disciplines and cultures: scientific, technological, humanistic and social. Smith’s program in the history of science and technology is designed to ...

Science isn’t a “triumphant march”—it’s sloppy, messy, and full of stops and starts. Meet the people who tell that story. On October 4, 1957, Americans were shattered when Sputnik 1 launched into ...

The computer has traditionally been a woman. Before the invention of the electronic computer, the word “computer” meant a female worker who was part of a team with many other workers doing hundreds of ...

While more and more students entering Stanford have at least a little programming experience, the inner workings of a computer remain elusive to many undergraduates. CS 56N: “Great Discoveries and ...

2020 has been a historic year— and mostly not in a good way. Among many things, we saw a historic level of disregard of scientific advice with respect to the COVID-19 virus, a disregard that made the ...

A Lady Writing (a cover letter) by Johannes Vermeer (1665) (edit Shari Flores/Hyperallergic, courtesy Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington) Obtaining a computer science degree once seemed like ...

How does technical art history relate to the burgeoning field of heritage science? Has technical art history become part of heritage science? Can both disciplines be considered counterparts within the ...