In the 1950s, computers were, for the most part, ponderous machines. But one machine offered a glimpse of the future. The Volscan was probably the first real air traffic computer designed to ...

When we talk about a “computer” today, we generally picture an electronic machine that can perform various kinds of mathematical operations, manage its program flow, move data from one place ...

With its bank of blinking lights and 6,000 manual switches, it looked like something we'd associate with a 1950s science fiction ... with helping to start the computer age, fueled the public's ...

For more than five decades, Dr. Washington led research that used computer models to forecast how fossil fuel emissions were ...

We’ve all watched classic movies that are undeniably great, but not much fun anymore. These movies of the 1950s are […] The ...

Dorothy Vaughan was a trailblazing mathematician and computer programmer who significantly contributed to the U.S. space program. As NACA’s (later NASA) first African American manager, she specialized ...

We had computers, but they were big boxes.” You can see why Musk’s robot demonstration yesterday reminded me of this tech fair from the late 1950s. The goal of the Americans was to convince ...

Engelbart, often described as a visionary, was ahead of his time in an era (1950s and '60s) when a single computer could fill an entire room. Early prototypes of the mouse featured a rectangular ...

Professor of Philosophy James Moor, the director of AI@50, said the researchers who came to Hanover, New Hampshire, 50 years ...

The rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped a South Carolina medical lab this week are among the most studied animals on the planet ...

The portrait depicts the mathematician Alan Turing as the god of artificial intelligence. Its creator is a robot that ...