The world's earliest computer was a silk loom built in China over two millennia ago, according to a claim made by China's ...

She was trying to prove the structure of the B form of DNA through mathematical computations and more than 100 hours of ...

The noisy Victorian world annoyed the mathematician, philosopher and inventor Charles Babbage, who came up with the idea of a programmable computer. He wrote letters complaining about it and a ...

The only known photographs of Ada Lovelace have been acquired by London's National Portrait Gallery after going up for ...

A statue of pioneering 19th Century mathematician Ada Lovelace has been installed in the town near her childhood home.

He built the Great Mosque at Timbuktu, and Timbuktu became a very important commercial city, having caravan connections with ...

He was completely unaware that this one minor character would attain a massive cult following amongst Star Wars fans, purely ...

In 1966, professor Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot called Eliza. His intentions were noble, but the results shocked him. Eliza was a computerised ‘psychotherapist’ that its creator believed would ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1840, the English mathematician ...

He spent two decades hosting the PBS series, during the formative years of personal computing. It was seen in more than 300 ...

"He went way above budget to get the extra height for the walls, while all the townspeople were mad about the tax expenditure ...

Britain’s King Charles III has revealed that his cancer treatment will soon be scaled back, crediting an “early diagnosis, effective intervention and adherence to doctors’ orders” for an improvement ...