We’re teaming up with CHM to take a look at critical innovations in technology history, beginning with the 40th anniversary of the Apple Lisa and the 50th anniversary of ethernet. We’re teaming up ...

Mar. 14—Silicon Valley history buffs know Ronald Wayne's story well. He worked with Steve Jobs at Atari and when the agreement was signed to create Apple Computer on April 1, 1976 — 50 years ago next ...

Grace Hertlein’s collection is “a kaleidoscopic snapshot of the early decades of an art historical and technological phenomenon.” Courtesy Sotheby's It’s Geek Week at Sotheby’s—the auction house’s ...

Joan Shogren graduated with her degree in chemistry from California’s San José State University (SJSU) in the early 1950s, and began working as a secretary in the department. It was there that she ...

Hard disk drives sure have come a long way, baby. In the 1950s, storage hardware was measured in feet — and in tons. Back then, the era’s state-of-the-art computer drive was found in IBM’s RAMAC 305; ...

With the rapid transformation of our lives by AI, one might wonder if there has ever been a societal force that has changed the way we work and communicate. One only has to look back at the last half ...

Mark Wilson, “Untitled Gray Ground & Untitled Light Gray Ground” (1973) (click to enlarge) Personal computing may have begun in the 1980s but the history of computer art started much earlier during a ...

Sometime in the late 1970s I did a studio visit at UC San Diego with Harold Cohen. Still new to California, I had heard about an artist working with computer programming to make experimental drawings ...

The rebuilt Colossus computer at the National Museum of Computing in Bletchley Park (all images courtesy Matt Parker) “For preservation sake, often the objects of our past become confined to clear ...

“It’s just like planning a dinner,” the renowned computer scientist Grace Hopper once quipped about computing in a 1967 issue of Cosmopolitan. “You have to plan ahead and schedule everything so it’s ...

David G. Stork is an adjunct professor at Stanford University in California, an honorary professor at University College London and a visiting fellow at the Warburg Institute in London. He is the ...