The first electronic computer was built during the 1940s by John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics at Iowa State University, and one of his students, Clifford E. Berry. But the ...

The history of computers goes back over 200 years. At first theorized by mathematicians and entrepreneurs, during the 19th century mechanical calculating machines were designed and built to solve the ...

Joseph Weizenbaum realized that programs like his Eliza chatbot could "induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal ...

Last year, Nvidia ( NVDA +2.98%) chief Jensen Huang suggested it may take 20 years for that to happen, then a few months ...

Ahead of Apple’s 50th anniversary, RR Auction is auctioning a trove of historic artifacts, including the first check written ...

Scientists are harnessing the alternative physics of the quantum realm to create computers of unprecedented power, potentially revolutionizing fields from drug discovery to climate modeling. Quantum ...

AMD CEO Lisa Su says AI will soon need "10 yottaflops" of compute — a scale of computing power the world has never built before.