Computer scientists have invented a highly effective, yet incredibly simple, algorithm to decide which items to toss from a web cache to make room for new ones. Computer scientists have invented a ...
The first electronic computer was built during the 1940s by John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics at Iowa State University, and one of his students, Clifford E. Berry. But the ...
On Oct. 3, 1950, three Bell Labs scientists received a patent for a "three-electrode circuit element" that would usher in the ...
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a wireless, non-invasive brain-computer interface to facilitate direct communication between the human brain and external devices without ...
Imagine you’re a copper miner in southeastern Europe in the year 3900 B.C.E. Day after day you haul copper ore through the mine’s sweltering tunnels. You’ve resigned yourself to the grueling monotony ...
And a remembrance, now. The, a computer visionary best known for inventing the mouse has died. As NPR's Laura Sydell reports, the mouse was just one small piece of what Douglas Engelbart contributed ...
PITTSBURGH, April 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a visually interesting computer for teaching religious education to young children," said an inventor, from Athens, Ala., "so I invented ...
A logo for SIEVE, created by Yazhuo Zhang, portrays hotter objects in shades of red and colder ones in shades of blue. Zhang also designed a web site for SIEVE, including a motion graphic ...