Computer engineer and pet owner Thomas de Wolf and Blub, using a car that detected the fish’s movement inside a water tank to direct the wheels, earned the record for greatest distance covered in a ...

His software brought printing into the digital age, allowing users to stop manually splicing columns of text and graphics and instead create layouts on a virtual pasteboard.

Notch never followed up his miracle creation. Neither did Tetris’ Alexey Pajitnov. How come only one of them could live with ...

Lynn Conway is remembered for her breakthroughs that helped shape modern computing and an advocate for the visibility of women in computer science. WEMU’s Ana Longoria has this story for Women’s ...

History has a strange habit of forgetting its own brilliance. Civilizations rose, fell, and took entire libraries of ...

A York native’s invention created a case of what goes around comes around, with a troublesome local twist. When York-born George Stibitz invented the first digital computer in 1940, he meant his ...

An obituary of Tony Hoare, a pioneer and one of the greatest programmers in the early history of computing.

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...

China’s brain-computer interface industry is growing fast, and the newest company to emerge from the country is aiming to access the brain without the use of invasive implants. Gestala, newly founded ...

Almost everyone has a PC or laptop of some kind, but in the future, you might not own one anymore. According to Jeff Bezos, the idea of personal computers may not last much longer. In his 2024 ...

For the past year, I kept bringing the same story to my editor: quantum computers are on the edge of becoming useful for scientific discovery. Of course, that has always been the goal. The idea of ...