Is this art or this is data? Anna Dorfman tracks the movements, and rests, of her computer’s mouse during the course of a day.

From the first mainframe computers of the late 1940’s – that probably occupied a couple of rooms – to the sleek, almost pocket size, Apple iPad, computers have come a long way.

I know we’re sick to death of the hype and non-stop chatter surrounding new Apple iPad, so I’ll try and be brief, but the furore over the name quite frankly has me puzzled.
It seems Apple has shown very poor judgement in including the word “pad” in the name of their new product, but I can’t [...]

Amazing, a mechanism over two thousand years old, that could predict eclipses and Moon phases.
Using nothing but an ingenious system of gears, the mechanism could be used to predict the month, day and hour of an eclipse, and even accounted for leap years. It could also predict the positions of the sun and moon [...]

Moore’s Law states that computer performance doubles about every two years, but with processor components shrinking ever closer to the size of an atom, it will take an overhaul of quantum mechanics to see this progression continue.
Chip manufacturers are already struggling with the power consumption and heat dissipation of state-of-the-art computer processors. And though [...]

Mark Coleran is an user interface designer who creates the high-tech computer interfaces that have featured in movies such as “Children of Men”, “The Island”, and “The Bourne Ultimatum”.

If you think working and meeting by way of telecommuting and teleconferencing is helping to reduce your need to travel by air – and in the process – your carbon footprint, think again.
It seems the carbon emissions from our computers, their peripherals, and even mobile phones create as much carbon dioxide as flying does each [...]

Here’s a cool sort of spare time project, construct a replica of the Apollo guidance computer.
Early computers are interesting. Because they’re simple, you can (if you like) actually understand the entire computer, from hardware to software. The AGC is the most interesting early computer because: a) it flew the first men to the moon; and [...]

It may be sometime before humans are rendered “redundant” by computing systems, even apparently high-powered systems.
A program, says Schmidt, may find things “that look really strange and foreign” to a scientist. More fundamentally, the Cornell program can analyze data, build models, and even guess which theories are more powerful, but it can’t explain what its [...]

IBM has been developing a new computer that will soon compete against two people on a US TV game show. Given that a little deductive thinking is required for this particular task, it is apt that the computer is named Watson.
Twelve years after IBM’s Deep Blue computer defeated World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov, the company [...]