Computing History - Tim Berners-Lee and the birth of the world wide web by Marwan Almarzooqi | This newsletter was created with Smore, an online tool for creating beautiful newsletters for educators, businesses and more
An excellent piece of local history has come in today. Galactic Invaders was built by Tangerine in 1980. No information of the brand on the case can be found. Can anyone help? #spaceInvaders
As part of International Women's Day, we take a look at some of the inspiring women whose contributions brought us the computer technology we use every day.
In the relatively brief history of computing, only a few machines have become iconic. Not necessarily because they were a commercial success, mind you, but because they introduced technologies or concepts that went on to become influential.
Trawling classified ads or sites like Craigslist for interesting hardware is a pastime enjoyed by many a hacker. At a minimum, you can find good deals on used tools and equipment. But if you’…
How the computing industry has evolved over the years
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This colourful series of historic computers documents the evolution of design within computing history. Docubyte’s photography combined with INK's retouching and post-production techniques produces something wholly unique: the ageing historical objects are ‘digitally restored’ to their original form. A number of these computers pre-date modern colour photography, but Guide to Computing showcases them in a never
Rhizome champions born-digital art and culture through commissions, exhibitions, scholarship, and digital preservation.
IBM's 7030, or Stretch, is something of a paradox. It introduced new technologies, many of which are still in use today, and was the fastest computer in the world for three years after it was introduc
How the computer became universal.Over the past fifty years, the computer has been transformed from a hulking scientific supertool and data processing workho...
A gigantic, archaic computer using reels of magnetic tape for memory was the precursor to what has now become known as cloud computing.
Rhizome champions born-digital art and culture through commissions, exhibitions, scholarship, and digital preservation.
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A short history of the evolution of quantum computing
Photos from the Life archives take us from abacus to Apple.
At a time when devices are faster and slimmer than ever, a collection of bulky old computers can be amusing yet surprisingly evocative. The Interface Experience, an exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center's Focus Gallery in New York, brings on a rush of nostalgia with a ton of vintage machines. Kimon Keramidas, curator and director of the digital media lab, hopes that an interaction with aging technology will make people think critically about their current devices. Unlike the objects that are off-limits behind a glass wall in a museum, the machines at the exhibit are open and quite alive. They've been overhauled with custom programs to initiate a three-way exchange with the user, the software and the hardware.
Cloud Computing distributes computer services to enable quicker innovation, flexible resource allocation & cost savings.
From afar, it looks like a steampunk chandelier. An intricate collection of tubes and wires that culminate in a small steel cylinder at the bottom. It is, in fact, one of the most sophisticated quantum computers ever built. The processor inside has 50 quantum bits, or qubits, that process tasks in a (potentially) revolutionary way. Normally, information is created and stored as a series of ones and zeroes. Qubits can represent both values at the same time (known as superposition), which means a quantum computer can theoretically test the two simultaneously. Add more qubits and this hard-to-believe computational power increases. Last November, IBM unveiled the world's first 50-qubit quantum computer. It lives in a laboratory, inside a giant white case, with pumps to keep it cool and some traditional computers to manage the tasks or algorithms being initiated. At CES this year, the company brought the innards -- the wires and tubes required to send signals to the chip and keep the system cool -- so reporters and attendees could better understand how it works. The biggest challenge, IBM Research Vice President Jeffrey Welser told me, is isolating the chip from unwanted "noise." This includes electrical, magnetic and thermal noise -- just the temperature of the room renders the whole machine useless.
