Cloud architectures may include a few definitions that surround the overall concept of what the “cloud” is as well as “when” or “how” it began. Some have conveyed the expression that “the cloud is ...

On May 7, 1981, influential physicist Richard Feynman gave a keynote speech at Caltech. Feynman opened his talk by politely rejecting the very notion of a keynote speech, instead saying that he had ...

The labs help students and researchers understand computing’s history and ...

This book covers modern computing from the development of the first electronic digital computer through the dot-com crash. The author concentrates on five key moments of transition: the transformation ...

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

Many people know Philadelphia is home to the world’s first all-electronic, programmable computer. The ENIAC — for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer — was developed at the University of ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Computer technology has been employed for more than fifty years at the Smithsonian. Information Technology (IT) currently supports every facet of ...

Edge computing is one of the most important technologies of modern times. Thanks to the edge, organizations can leverage data-consuming innovations like artificial intelligence, biometrics, the ...

“The freshmen now entering Drexel [in the early 1980s] will spend the greater portion of their professional lives in the 21st century, in an environment in which the computer will be an everyday, even ...

Scientists are harnessing the alternative physics of the quantum realm to create computers of unprecedented power, potentially revolutionizing fields from drug discovery to climate modeling. Quantum ...