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Jim Harris, from left, Bill Murto and Rod Canion

‘Silicon cowboys’: The underdog story of personal computing

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In 1982, IBM was the king of personal computing – and Compaq’s first PC was just a design sketched on the back of a placemat.

All public school students in England will now learn programming from the ages of five to 16.

Reading, math and … Javascript? Coding is now mandatory in English schools

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Members of Electric Waste Orchestra perform on their homemade instruments.

Here’s how an old hard drive can become a musical instrument

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‘The Man Who Invented The Computer’

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School Year Blog: Watch this eighth-grader do math ridiculously fast

School Year Blog: Watch this eighth-grader do ridiculously fast math

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The man who invented the computer

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Though no one person technically invented the computer, John Vincent Atanasoff created the machine that led the way.

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The Computer as Artist

Arts, Culture & Media

Computers have taken over an astonishing array of tasks humans used to do. They fly our planes, give us directions, recommend books, set us up on dates. But can they tell us a good story?

Researchers Try to Build 19th Century Computer

Charles Babbage, the 19th century British mathematician, philosopher, and engineer, has been called the “father of computing” for the powerful calculating machine he devised in the 1830s: the Babbage Analytical Engine. Babbage never built it, but now a team of British researchers at the Science Museum in London are combing through his blueprints to see […]

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Meep meep! The newest, fastest supercomputer

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Yesterday IBM made history with a computer that crossed the one thousand quadrillion individual floating point operators (pedaflop) threshold. It is twice as fast as the computer that was the fastest just a few days ago. Guest: Jack Dongarra, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Tennessee