The story of modern computer ethics begins, strangely enough, in wartime. As Nazi Germany escalated its bombing raids on England, American mathematician and physicist Norbert Wiener volunteered his ...
This event will look at the link between Rock Island and the invention of the first electronic digital computer by Iowa State physicist John Atanasoff, who spent an evening in Rock Island in the ...
In May this year, Estonia’s latest member of the workforce will start its work providing personalised support to citizens when they use government services. Named Bürokratt, the Siri-like digital ...
From Spacewar! to the iconic Apple II computer, from long-forgotten punch card systems to massive tape drives—the recently renovated Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California has it all. It ...
Imagine you’re a copper miner in southeastern Europe in the year 3900 B.C.E. Day after day you haul copper ore through the mine’s sweltering tunnels. You’ve resigned yourself to the grueling monotony ...
January 2004 brings the 20th anniversary of the Macintosh computer, and The Computer History Museum is going to celebrate with its “The Macintosh Marketing Story: Fact and Fiction, 20 Years Later” ...