This course examines fundamental issues and design trade-offs in modern processor architectures. We will discuss some of the constraints that limit the design and programmability of modern processors, ...

IBM’s Model F keyboards are prized among keyboard enthusiasts. Introducing buckling spring switches over a capacitive printed circuit board (PCB) in the early 80s, they’re considered the grandfather ...

Seventy years ago was arguably the start of the modern computer age. A machine that took up an entire room at a laboratory in Manchester University ran its first program at 11am on 21 June 1948. The ...

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LeCun, who currently teaches at NYU and formerly served as the Chief Scientist at Meta AI, pointed out a significant weakness ...

German engineer and inventor Konrad Zuse is considered as the inventor of the modern computer but was frustrated in his ...

Back in September 2014, Ars Technica’s Andrew Cunningham took on a Herculean challenge in modern computing. Egged on by his coworkers, he used a PowerBook G4 running OS 9.2.2 as his “daily driver” for ...

Ritchie created the C programming language and used it to create the operating system Unix. Both developments underpin modern computing, experts say. Flickr/mrbill Dennis Ritchie, whose invention of ...

DOS, Amiga, IBM PC: 4 Ways to Run Old Games on Your Modern PC Want to play retro computer games on Windows 10 or 11? The older a game is, the less likely it is to work right out of the box on a new PC ...