Since the introduction of the IBM PC in 1981, desktop computers have become a standard fixture in most workplaces. Through their ubiquity and impact on how work is done, personal computers (PCs) ...

Lonnie Mimms has spent the last few decades collecting artifacts from the earliest days of computing. In July, the Atlanta real estate developer opened the Computer Museum of America to showcase some ...

If you have ever owned a computer, especially over previous decades, you know that the type of storage used has changed many ...

When Bill Buxton worked at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center in the early 1990s, he examined the classic children’s homemade telephones: two cups connected by a taut string. He wondered why that same ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University engineers have new information contradicting the most dire predictions about the imminent demise of Moore's Law, a general rule that is central to the ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Computer scientists have long dreamed of the possibilities of what artificial intelligence ...

In order to illustrate the potential of using computers in the processing data from non-numerical sources, we have chosen a question of socio-economic history. A well established thesis in ...