Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Blurring the lines between gray matter and gigabytes, living computers seek to merge biology and technology. For a long time, bioprocessing platforms ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.--It's entirely possible that one of the worst things that ever happened to this city was the success of the first commercially viable PC, the Altair 8800. Some might call that ...

The discovery of quantum mechanics in the early 20th century spawned a revolution that tore through scientific disciplines with abandon. It helped to explain, among many other things, the structure of ...

Physics Today. October 1987. Vol. 40, no. 10. Pages 25-72. American Institute of Physics, New York. The special articles in the October 1987 issue of Physics Today explore not only the use of ...

Fewer than one in 20 high school students take computer science (Photo by Robert Daemmrich Photography Inc/Corbis via Getty Images) Half of high schools do not offer a single course in computer ...

This month marks the 50th anniversary of Intel's 4004 processor, the first commercially available microprocessor built on a single chip. Originally designed for a Japanese desk calculator, it helped ...

In my previous essay on TechCrunch, I examined the profound challenges that confronted the computer engineers trying to fit tens of thousands of Chinese characters in a memory system designed to ...

OXFORD—“Something Big Is Happening,” wrote artificial intelligence (AI) startup founder Matt Shumer in a recent viral essay that captured his industry’s swelling confidence that the technology will ...

Notes from the hobbyist club where Jobs, Steve Wozniak and other tech pioneers shared ideas and code offer fascinating insights into a pivotal moment in the PC revolution. Leslie Katz led a team that ...

White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett draws a parallel between the computer revolution of the 90s, which acted as a positive supply shock allowing the Fed to let growth run ...

The National Science Foundation has given a $1.99 million grant to a team of researchers looking to develop a computer that integrates silicon hardware with microbes. Microbes communicate using ...