Created by Charles Babbage, the Analytical Engine was a general-purpose, completely program-controlled, mechanical digital computer with no human intervention. It was designed to be programmed using ...

KATIE HAFNER: Hello Science Talk Audience / Hello 60-Second Science Listeners! I’m Katie Hafner, the host of Lost Women of Science. Each season is devoted to the life and work of one scientist who ...

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 invention of the computer is often articulated like a three-act play: the idea of the computer arrives, then there is the process of how to make the computer and, finally, there is the creation.

From the earliest mechanical devices to the most advanced quantum computers of the present, the history of computing is a fascinating trip spanning thousands of years. Let’s explore the significant ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A substrate does not have to be solid to compute. It is possible to make a computer purely from a liquid. I demonstrate this using a variety ...