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.

Taschen delves into the rich visual history of the computer with this new XL-scale book, edited by graphic designers and historians Jens Müller and Julius Wiedemann. Casting its net back into the ...

Two of world’s first desktop computers found during house clearance (Picture: SWNS) A house clearance in London has uncovered two of only three surviving models of the world’s first desktop computer ...

While Americans may have stolen the computing limelight since the end of the Second World War, Brits have been responsible for many of its founding principles, some going back to the 19th century, and ...

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 ...

With the rapid transformation of our lives by AI, one might wonder if there has ever been a societal force that has changed the way we work and communicate. One only has to look back at the last half ...

Seventy years ago today (Thursday 21 st, June) a landmark development in the history of computing took place at The University of Manchester. At 11am on 21 June, 1948 the Small Scale Experimental ...

The exhibition at Cambridge's Centre for Computing History includes women from the earliest days of computing and includes events devoted to Victorian computing pioneer Ada Lovelace. She was an ...

There's nothing that dates more quickly than technology as mere sight of an old brick-size mobile phone proves. And any TV show or film that featured such a phone (think Friends or the 1987 Michael ...

The exhibition at Cambridge's Centre for Computing History includes women from the earliest days of computing and includes events devoted to Victorian computing pioneer Ada Lovelace. She was an ...