These historic computing labs teach kids what technology was like before phones, social media, and the cloud

The labs help students and researchers understand computing’s history and ...
Edhat

How Books Helped Make Computers Mainstream

“For computers to become widespread, people first had to imagine what they were, what they could do and why they mattered,” said McCray, who currently serves as the Kluge Chair in Technology and ...
Time

The U.S. Must Win the Quantum Computing Race. History Shows How to Do It

The Dilution refrigerator is seen inside Amazon's quantum networking lab in Brighton, Mass., on June 28, 2023. In 1981, physicist Richard Feynman first theorized the creation of quantum computers that ...
The New Yorker

The Birth of the Personal Computer

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 ...
Science Daily

Scientists say quantum tech has reached its transistor moment

Quantum technology has reached a turning point, echoing the early days of modern computing. Researchers say functional quantum systems now exist, but scaling them into truly powerful machines will ...