In the 1950s, computers were, for the most part, ponderous machines. But one machine offered a glimpse of the future. The Volscan was probably the first real air traffic computer designed to ...

Engelbart, often described as a visionary, was ahead of his time in an era (1950s and '60s) when a single computer could fill an entire room. Early prototypes of the mouse featured a rectangular ...

When I joined my company, the computing industry had been in play since mainframe computers became prominent in the 1950s and 60s. Then, in the mid-60s, minicomputers debuted. We saw the first ...

The system is rigged: Students from families in the top 1 percent of earners were 77 times more likely to attend an Ivy ...

Exercise and diet are not the only things to radically change over the last half-century. In the 1950s, a new home cost £2,000 but an office worker's average wage was just £ 14 a week.

A man bought and retrofitted an iconic 1950s TV set so it can play Netflix and YouTube. Kevin Martinez, 30, is an avid ...

Someone at OpenAI must have read or re-read Turing’s musings from 1950 about how to impress humans, convincing them that the computer “seems to understand.” Or maybe someone read or re-read ...

74-79, 204-206. This article discusses charts made for the ENIAC computer. Grace M. Hopper, The Calculation of Extended Insurance, Philadelphia, 1950. A photocopy of this document is in the collection ...

Madeline Hamilton, a PhD student in computer science at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), said: “The complexity of melodies in the most popular songs has shown a significant decline since 1950. ...

The City Planning Commission unanimously voted to approve the revamp – which would turn the blighted 1950s-era intrastate stop into a spacious, bright transit hub. City planners unanimously ...