Meet ENIAC, which stands for electronic numerical integrator and computer. "We like to refer to it as the start of the age of computing," Paul Shaffer, an ENIAC historian, said. For context, this ...

WEST CHESTER, PA — Eighty years after the unveiling of the world’s first electronic, general-purpose programmable digital ...

A history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee stocked a lab with old computing equipment and devices so ...

What happens when students who are often underestimated are given a big challenge and real trust? At PS Academy Arizona, neurodivergent students did something extraordinary — they built a full-scale, ...

In a day and age in which we carry sophisticated mobile phones in our pockets, it's hard to imagine that the first computers ever built were so large they took up entire rooms. One of those massive ...

It took nearly six months (and 1,600 hot glue gun sticks) for 80 autistic schoolkids to recreate the massive Army computer, which debuted in 1946. I'm the Executive Editor, Features & Special Projects ...

The first computers ever built were so large they took up entire rooms, something hard to imagine in a day and age when we carry mobile phones in our pockets. One of those massive machines, the ...

Rollercoaster Tycoon wasn’t the most fashionable computer game out there in 1999. But if you took a look beneath the pixels—the rickety rides, the crowds of hungry, thirsty, barfing people (and the ...

What if you could strip away the layers of abstraction that operating systems impose and interact directly with your computer’s hardware? Imagine crafting a program where every instruction is executed ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...