Hard disk drives sure have come a long way, baby. In the 1950s, storage hardware was measured in feet — and in tons. Back then, the era’s state-of-the-art computer drive was found in IBM’s RAMAC 305; ...

The Computer History Museum is a museum established in 1996 in Mountain View, California, USA. The Museum is dedicated to preserving and presenting the stories and artifacts of the information age, ...

Computer engineering is a broad field that sits in between the hardware of electrical engineering and the software of computer science. When computer engineers design hardware, they focus on what the ...

Many people know Philadelphia is home to the world’s first all-electronic, programmable computer. The ENIAC — for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer — was developed at the University of ...

In the 1950s, a Broadway play tackled the fear that “electronic brains” would automate humans out of jobs. The computer first appeared on the Broadway stage in 1955 in a romantic comedy—William ...

Computer History Museum Releases Original AlexNet Code: Why It Matters Your email has been sent What is AlexNet, and why does it matter? The legacy of AlexNet in AI evolution Why open-sourcing AlexNet ...

3D illustration of Interconnected neurons with electrical pulses. The source code for AlexNet, a key network in the development of the artificial neural nets that enabled modern AI, is now open source ...