This year marks the 80th anniversary of ENIAC, the first general-purpose digital computer. The computer was built during ...

Scientists used the quipu’s data to build working spreadsheets, file systems, and encryption tools, rivaling conventional ...

C. 2500 BCE: Sumerian abacus -- c. 700 BC: Scytale -- c. 150: Antikythera mechanism -- c. 60: Programmable robot -- c. 850: "On Deciphering Cryptographic Messages" -- c. 1470: Cipher disk -- 1613: ...

This Women’s History Month, we look at how women’s innovations have advanced the field of computer programming. View on ...