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 2,000-year-old loom found in a Chinese tomb may hold the key to the origins of computing.

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.

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 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, ...

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 ...

The race to harness quantum mechanics for computing power is finally colliding with the real economy. After a century of ...

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

Google on Monday said that it has overcome a key challenge in quantum computing with a new generation of chip, solving a computing problem in five minutes that would take a classical computer more ...

Over the past few months, some significant breakthroughs in quantum computing technology have indicated how quickly it’s evolving. While it remains very much in the ...