Early computers devoid of graphical interfaces performed the exacting calculations necessary to design the atomic bomb, but they proved less than optimal for trading pictures of kittens. Early ...

The computer I was most surprised to see was the probably Apple Lisa. The Lisa is fascinating for so many reasons—it was named after Steve Jobs' daughter, it cost a staggering $9,995 in 1983 (more ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It’s a computer, a monitor, an internet communicator, and one of the most iconic lines of tech in history. But ...

I was only a few pages into Alvy Ray Smith’s new book, A Biography of the Pixel, when I realized that all of my preconceptions about what it might be were wrong. A legend of computer graphics, Smith ...

Integrated graphics have been with us since 1991 in the workstation space, and since 1995 in the PC. They have now found their way into smartphones, tablets, cars, game consoles, and many other ...

Those of us who lived through the time without meaning—otherwise known as the mid-1990s—understand the definition of “tease.” Game publishers of the day were suddenly and mysteriously quite capable of ...

Whose stories get to be told? Yale professors address the racial bias ingrained in the algorithms that depict humans in computer graphics. According to Yale professor of computer science Theodore Kim, ...

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The history of computer science, the internet, and the modern software industry is populated by a cast of characters that is largely White, middle-aged men. Leafing through Walter Isaacson’s excellent ...

In the mid-1960s, special effects in films and TV were the domain of miniatures, matte paintings on glass and optical compositing – all on real film. The effects in Star Trek: The Original Series were ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. If you asked me to list some of the games I bought or played in 1994, I’d probably start off with Donkey Kong Country and Final Fantasy III, and it ...