In 1985, that special issue – entitled Computers and Ethics – was published; and it quickly became the widest-selling issue in the journal’s history. The lead article – and winner of the essay ...

It was the first computer to have a microprogrammed control unit and a bit slice hardware architecture. A unit can be seen at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge. Here, an IBM storage ...

Reliable communication tools are therefore essential. The basic idea of the WWW was to merge the evolving technologies of computers, data networks and hypertext into a powerful and easy to use global ...

This is an excerpt of Terrence Masson's computer graphics history book, CG 101: A Computer Graphics Industry Reference. Much of it was written by Alvy Ray Smith and Paul Heckbert. [It is mostly ...

Until the early 20th century, a computer was a person who performed calculations by hand. But key innovations in technology saw machines take on this role—what were they, and who was behind them? In ...