In A Nutshell A physicist built a device from ordinary bars and springs that can count, store memory, and process information ...

“The freshmen now entering Drexel [in the early 1980s] will spend the greater portion of their professional lives in the 21st century, in an environment in which the computer will be an everyday, even ...

The invention of the computer is often articulated like a three-act play: the idea of the computer arrives, then there is the process of how to make the computer and, finally, there is the creation.

There are currently about 80 companies across the world manufacturing quantum computing hardware. Because I report on quantum computing, I have had a chance to watch it grow as an industry from up ...

Mechanical computing platforms could operate where it isn't possible to use silicon chips.

Quantum computers made from qubits based on extremely cold atoms have been getting larger at an impressive rate, which may soon make them computationally powerful – but errors arise at a rate that ...