The Dream Machine

Englishman Charles Babbage conceived the basic idea of a computer about 150 years ago, as a machine that would eliminate error and relieve humans of t...

Forty-five years ago a few brave souls risked everything to prove that computers were destined for more than just the laboratory. Interviews: Ted Wi...

The manuscripts of the Middle Ages, available to only a select priesthood, turned into the paperback book. How close are we to the "paperback" compute...

By the 1960s, a computer could do university-level calculus and play chess, but the search for a true thinking machine turned out to be a lot more dif...

The tens of millions of computers in the world have begun talking to one another. This "networking" has allowed all sorts of new communities to grow u...