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 ...

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 ...

Past perfect? A look back at the good, the bad, and the ugly of cloud computing. In the beginning, organizations always processed data on-premises. Or did they? You may be surprised to learn that ...

In 1979, two M.I.T. computer-science alumni and a Harvard Business School graduate launched a new piece of computer software for the Apple II machine, an early home computer. Called VisiCalc, short ...

As one of the world’s most valuable companies, Microsoft has been a trailblazer in computer software, cloud computing, and AI, but it faced scandals and internal infighting along the way. Here's how ...

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 ...