How do you tell if a new technology product is a brilliant breakthrough? Listening to its creators doesn’t work: Tech companies have an annoying tendency to promote everything as a brilliant ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many people know Philadelphia is home to the world’s first all-electronic, programmable computer. The ENIAC — for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer — was developed at the University of ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Computer technology has been employed for more than fifty years at the Smithsonian. Information Technology (IT) currently supports every facet of ...

This course will take place in person at 60 Turner Street. The room will be equipped with a HEPA air purifier. From punch cards to smartphones, the digital revolution has transformed the way we live, ...

Mountain View, California, Jan. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Computer History Museum (CHM), the leading institution decoding technology—its computing past, digital present, and future impact on ...