Mike Kent, probably the first person to bet on sports using a computer, began his career testing top-secret nuclear reactor designs at a Westinghouse facility in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania. In the ...

Working in secret for more than two years, a group of mathematicians has set out to resolve of the longest and most bitter ...

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 ...

Government-funded academic research on parallel computing, stream processing, real-time shading languages, and programmable ...

Built around the beginning of the 1st century BCE, the Antikythera Mechanism is the oldest known analog computer in human ...

The stone shelter building is a beautiful example of Depression-era construction, built with care and meant to last for ...