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 ...

There’s an old saying: When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. Sometimes referred to as “the law of the instrument,” that hammer-and-nail idea is a common pitfall in ...

Trent Loos explores energy use, economic impact and research comparing the human brain to modern supercomputers.

Adwait Jog sat down at a table in McGlothlin-Street Hall last semester and delivered his verdict on the status of a long-standing observation that has predicted the expansion of computing power for ...

The notion that we live as characters in someone else’s video game is irresistible to many, even outside of science fiction bookshelves. Googling the term “simulation hypothesis” returns numerous ...

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI received his first computer at the age of eight. He studied computer science at Stanford University, but dropped out after one year to co-found Loopt, a social networking ...

You might expect Bell Labs would have state-of-the-art computers, and they did. But it is jarring to realize just how little that was in 1973, fifty years ago. If you started work at Bell’s Holmdel ...

When war broke out on the European continent in 1939, few countries were prepared for what would happen in the following years. WWII introduced the world to the horrors of mechanized warfare, and ...