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

A numerical table is a tool designed to save the time and labor of those engaged in computing work. The oldest tables which are preserved, were compiled in Babylon in the period 1800-1500 B.C. They ...

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 ...

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

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

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.

The noisy Victorian world annoyed the mathematician, philosopher and inventor Charles Babbage, who came up with the idea of a programmable computer. He wrote letters complaining about it and a ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1840, the English mathematician ...

The Steam Machine is the new PC gaming-focused console revealed by Valve in November 2025. Alongside this reveal, we also got our first look at the new Steam Controller and new VR headset, titled the ...

Machine learning is the ability of a machine to improve its performance based on previous results. Machine learning methods enable computers to learn without being explicitly programmed and have ...

We developed a thin, flexible microelectrode array that can be slid through a small slit in the skull onto the brain surface. We showed that this minimally invasive system records and stimulates ...

Dedicated to teaching and research, the £63 million Babbage Building brings STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) subjects together to support academic collaboration and ...