The woman who helped put astronauts on the moon was a software engineer when the field was not prestigious or lucrative.

A computer does one thing at a time, even if it feels like it’s doing multiple things at once. In reality, it’s just switching between tasks very quickly. But a VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) ...

On May 7, 1981, influential physicist Richard Feynman gave a keynote speech at Caltech. Feynman opened his talk by politely rejecting the very notion of a keynote speech, instead saying that he had ...

Margaret Hamilton, who led development of NASA’s Apollo flight software, has died at 90.

Modern AI did not appear suddenly one day. Over the past 100 years, technologies such as the radio, the computer, the ...

Looking back at the history of technology, it has always been a process of bringing everything closer to us, moving from ...

With the rapid transformation of our lives by AI, one might wonder if there has ever been a societal force that has changed the way we work and communicate. One only has to look back at the last half ...

Quantum computing has made considerable progress since theoretical ideas were first formally explored in the 1970s. It promises a dramatic leap in our ability to understand the world, improve business ...