The woman who helped put astronauts on the moon was a software engineer when the field was not prestigious or lucrative.

Women are often seen as powerhouses because they can multitask, create, do, and manage it all at once. That’s also why ...

A cup of coffee and a story about a legendary machineThis is a column you can read in about 17 minutes. Please enjoy it as a ...

During the 1700s, young men routinely strolled in bright pink silk suits embellished with floral embroidery. Pink was viewed as an offshoot of red, a color associated with warfare and passion. Both ...

One of the first such tools, EMACS, turns 50 this year, and it is still widely used.  EMACS first ran on the early video ...

Vol. 07 John von NeumannDesigning the EDVACWhen electronic computers were first born, changing the way they calculated required rewiring the machine or resetting switches. Even if the calculation ...

Hamilton's team wrote the software that kept Apollo 11's Moon landing going when its computer overloaded. She died on ...

A new paper demonstrating Grover's search on a room-temperature diamond processor may echo the transistor's takeover from ...

De Valera’s granddaughter Nóra Ní Chuív is one of the very early Irish women to earn a PhD in pure mathematics, in 1973. There were a few before her, most notably Barbara Yates (1919-1998) at Aberdeen ...

Investors and engineers need to wrestle with what these facilities will look like in 10 or 20 years. Todd G. Buchholz, a former White House director of economic policy and managing director of the ...

Meet Hugo: a furry, hugging humanoid robot a Cambridge startup hopes will greet guests at theme parks and hotels.

LOS ANGELES - Caltech researchers have produced the most sophisticated DNA-based computer yet, a wet-chemistry system that ...