“It’s just like planning a dinner,” the renowned computer scientist Grace Hopper once quipped about computing in a 1967 issue of Cosmopolitan. “You have to plan ahead and schedule everything so it’s ...

Computers have a long and complex history, and they've been around far longer than the internet. In the past, computers were used to perform mathematical and logical tasks that were difficult for ...

The free, online software uses crowdsourcing and facial recognition to help users identify unknown subjects in Civil War era photographs. Amy Loeffler With a camera in every pocket and facial ...

A version of this article appeared in the Summer 2016 issue of strategy+business. Excerpted with permission from From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives, by ...

For pioneering computer scientist Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautiful expression. Donald Knuth is a computer scientist who came of age with his field. During the nascent years of ...

Harry Halpin wants our internet conversations to be more private. He’s helped create a new kind of network that might make it possible. Harry Halpin works on internet privacy for many reasons, but ...

For years, Barbara Simons was the loneliest of Cassandras—a technologist who feared what technology had wrought. Her cause was voting: Specifically, she believed that the electronic systems that had ...

16 years ago, Dennis DeGray was paralyzed in an accident. Now, implants in his brain allow him some semblance of control. Credit...Illustration by Dadu Shin Supported by By Ferris Jabr To hear more ...