Two of the world's first micro computers, each more than 50 years old, have been found during a house clearance in London hidden under a stack of old boxes.

The computer has been around for a long time, but you'd hardly recognize the earliest versions. The first computer was mechanical, and it started a revolution.

The Verge is partnering with the Computer History Museum to explore the past and future of tech We’re teaming up with CHM to take a look at critical innovations in technology history, beginning ...

Sick of silicon? Semiconductors too Web 1.0 for you? You could make a turing machine out of old socks if you tried hard enough. These are the computing technologies that came before our time—and ...

To coincide with the event, we present a roundup of the coolest computer interfaces past, present, and future. Multitouch screen: Microsoft’s Surface is an example of a multitouch screen.

In the past two decades, thousands of computers hare been applied successfully in various industries. How much more widespread will their use become? MARTIN GREENBERGER,who is associate professor ...

Computer programs have been able to predict which of three short films a person is thinking about, just by looking at their brain activity. The research provides further insight into how our ...

The history of computers in education has been variously characterized as an "accidental revolution" or "unthinking man and his thinking machines." Others have said that the computer revolution has ...

The evolution of toy computers for children mirrors that of real-world systems for adults. We look at some of the changes the play-along versions have undergone in the past 70 years.

Computers can prove mathematical theorems. But can they make deep conceptual insights into the way the world works?

Unprecedented Demand In the past five years, student demand for computer science at Northwestern has soared, the number of computer science majors has tripled, and computer science courses have ...