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 world watched in astonishment last week as NASA delivered its one-ton Curiosity rover to the surface of Mars with astonishing precision, hitting a target area just 12 x 4 miles wide after eight ...

(The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA) The home of the largest collection of computer artifacts in the world, which includes thousands of hardware components, images, films and videos.

The invention of the computer is often articulated like a three-act play: the idea of the computer arrives, then there is the process of how to make the computer and, finally, there is the creation.

In the olden days, plugging something into your computer—a mouse, a printer, a hard drive—required a zoo of cables. Maybe you needed a PS/2 connector or a serial port, the Apple Desktop Bus, or a DIN ...

Map of Nova Scotia made in 1755 by provincial chief surveyor Charles Morris British Library via Flickr under public domain When it’s mentioned in mainstream North American media, Nova Scotia tends to ...