Computers
Robot Babies
Can scientists build a machine that learns as it goes and plays well with others?
Booting Up a Computer Pioneer’s 200-Year-Old Design
Charles Babbage, the grandfather of the computer, envisioned a calculating machine that was never built, until now
John Hodgman Gives “More Information Than You Require”
John Hodgman, best recognized as the "PC" in the Apple advertising campaign, discusses how humans distinguish fact from falsehood
The Player
Luis von Ahn's secret for making computers smarter? Get thousands of people to take part in his cunning online games
Baby Dell
A proto PC harkens back to the birth of an industry
Rome Reborn
Archaeologists unveil a 3-D model of the great city circa A.D. 400
Reboot
A photojournalist enchanted by computers takes another look at the soul of some old machines
Digital Attic
Dag Spicer, senior curator at the Computer History Museum, discusses 1950s mainframes, an original Apple One and Steve Wozniak's baby shoes
What Camera?
Look what photographer Robert Creamer can do with a flatbed scanner
Digitizing the Hanging Court
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey is an epic chronicle of crime and vice in early London. Now anyone can search all 52 million words
35 Who Made a Difference: Bill Gates
The king of software takes on his biggest challenge yet
Head's Up
From a computer-generated model, sculptors cast a bronze triceratops that Looks like the real thing
Cybercops Take a Byte Out of Computer Crime
A detective working the computer crime beat still needs street smarts, but there's a lot of uncharted legal territory out there
What a Difference the Difference Engine Made: From Charles Babbage's Calculator Emerged Today's Computer
The incredible world of computers was born some 150 years ago, with a clunky machine dreamed up by a calculating genius named Charles Babbage
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