A computer that uses light rather than digital switches for calculations could help reduce the energy demands of artificial ...

The novelist Jane Smiley has written an interesting and informative book called The Man Who Invented the Computer, which is marred chiefly by its title. Smiley herself clearly has mixed feelings about ...

Douglas Engelbart, a Silicon Valley engineer who invented the computer mouse and is credited with many of the concepts that underpin modern computing and the Internet, died on Tuesday at his home in ...

A new study indicates that a computer that uses light instead of digital switches for computation may help reduce the energy demands of artificial intelligence (AI). The scientists who invented this ...

Almost all modern computers descend from a machine built before World War II by physics professor John Atanasoff. But today, almost no one has... If you've got an iPhone or a laptop or a high-powered ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kai James, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) Imagine you’re a copper ...