On Saturday evening, I was a very happy attendee of the Computer History Museum’s Fellow Awards, an inspiring annual event which celebrates the contributions of individuals whose work has changed the ...

The first electronic computer was built during the 1940s by John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics at Iowa State University, and one of his students, Clifford E. Berry. But the ...

In 1947, engineers stared at the room‑sized Harvard Mark II computer in frustration as it kept malfunctioning. They finally ...

This neat video from the [Computer History Archives Project] documents the development of the Aiken Mark I through Mark IV computers. Partly shrouded in the secrecy of World War II and the Manhattan ...

New award program recognizes honorees for significant contributions in shaping the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial ecosystem ...

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; ...

From AT&T to NASA, women working as computers performed the calculations that made modern science possible. In the early ...

A computer does one thing at a time, even if it feels like it’s doing multiple things at once. In reality, it’s just ...

Loureen Ayyoub reports on the Computer History Museum for Bay Area Beat. One year ago today, President Trump stood in the ...