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...peak moment was the brilliant lecture on the British WW II Colossus computing engines by computer scientist and historian of computing Brian Randell. Colossus machines were special-purpose computers used to...
...futuristic. Credit: General Motors Five and half years later, even after several billion dollars of investment combined from over a dozen car and other companies, general-purpose autonomous cars remain over...
...routers were simply computers with network interfaces running specialized software. All functions – looking up packet addresses, shuffling packets from incoming to outgoing interfaces, as well as computing routing tables...
...degrees from Duke University. Her research focuses on the history of computing in the UK, and why the proportion of women computer operators and programmers declined as electronic computing matured....
...www.planethunters.org. Planet Hunters is a citizen-science project, with ordinary citizens contributing their time to sifting through data from Kepler. According to Planet Hunters, “while computers still struggle with this seemingly...