Universities are no strangers to innovating with technology. EdTech wouldn’t exist if that weren’t true. But colleges were truly at the forefront when it came to the development of computer science.

In 1847, at the age of just twenty-seven, Ada Lovelace became the world’s first computer programmer—more than a century ...

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

Today, we’re going to look at the history of programming Since Joseph Marie Jacquard’s textile loom in 1801, there has been a demonstrated need to give our machines instructions. In the last few ...

This video is part of Electronic Design's 70th Anniversary series. This is a bit like Mel Brooks History of the World, Part I for programmers. I've been writing a number of articles and recording ...

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There’s been a big push recently to get more girls interested in computer coding. Google announced this summer it was putting $50 million toward the effort. Programs like Code.org, Girls Who Code, and ...

The New Hampshire Department of Transportation has installed a historical marker near the Hanover town line on Route 120 to mark the invention of the BASIC computer language at Dartmouth College in ...

Bill Gates and Paul Allen form Traf-O-Data in 1971 to sell their computer traffic-analysis systems. 1972: Gary Kildall writes PL/M, the first high-level programming language for the Intel ...