The first computer didn’t show up looking like anything we’d call a computer now. There was no screen, no keyboard, no mouse, and definitely no controller waiting beside it. Early computers were built ...

Acclaimed as a mathematical genius, Ada Lovelace is said to have understood the potential of the first computer blueprints better than their inventor. A serendipitous friendship with the mathematician ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

Years before software programmers sat poised over their keyboards in sleek, expansive tech offices, women built the foundations of modern computer programming— in less-than-glamorous conditions. For ...

The Lyons Electronic Office (LEO), is the world’s first business computer and it ran the world’s first business process on November 30th, 1951. “In the mid 20th century, J Lyons and Company was ...