At a small local chapter meeting of a professional society, Gordon Moore's talk laid out the rudiments of what would become ...

Inspired by A New History of Modern Computing by Thomas Haigh and Paul E. Ceruzzi. But the selection of key events in the journey from ENIAC to Tesla, from Data Processing to Big Data, is mine. This ...

Tucked away 90 feet underground lay thousands of records in a unique collection at the University. The collection tells the history of one of the most remarkable advances in human civilization – ...

On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor. John Bardeen, ...

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 ...

More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a ...

That evening, computer scientist Howard Gayle responded with a facetious message titled “WARNING!” He claimed that an ...

Obtaining a computer science degree once seemed like the clearest path to a steady job and a high starting salary. By contrast, art history degree holders, as recently as 2022, could expect some of ...

“The freshmen now entering Drexel [in the early 1980s] will spend the greater portion of their professional lives in the 21st century, in an environment in which the computer will be an everyday, even ...

To make a long story short, a humanities education results in one of the slowest measurable rates of counterproductive “skill change.” This means that the skills learned through a humanities degree ...