Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM are all racing to build a quantum computer. But the technology's feasibility is as hazy as its physics.

The only known photographs of mathematician and computing pioneer Ada Lovelace have been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery just before they were expected to be sold to a private buyer.

German engineer and inventor Konrad Zuse is considered as the inventor of the modern computer but was frustrated in his ...

The first mechanical computer is an Analytical Engine, which was designed by Charles Babbage, the Father of the Computer.

But it wasn’t an engraving. It was a sheet of finely woven silk – a thousand threads to the inch – so subtle and detailed ...

DAVID Koch recalls the day Joe Hockey rang saying his investment banker wife Melissa Babbage was selling "everything we own''. It was a year before the global financial crisis hit and the stock market ...

While the Dartmouth workshop in 1956 is the official birthplace of AI, it wasn’t the first time that people had thought about building thinking machines. However, without access to computers, there ...

Is it hyperbolic to say that humanity is entering a new age with AI? And what does that mean? Well, for one thing, many of those who think deeply about IT would contrast the twentieth century, as the ...

In the candle-lit world of Victorian England, one woman looked beyond steam engines and gears — and saw the future of machines that could think. Ada Lovelace, daughter of poet Lord Byron, worked with ...

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 – ...

Much before we started fiddling with our gadgets, and even before we started sending out animals to space, we had to build a certain level of mastery with digital computers. That level of control took ...

As you might expect from its name, the "Difference Engine" is a strangely difficult object to describe. You might start by imagining the side of a large crib with uprights ringed by small metal wheels ...