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In March 1971, a computer science whiz with an unlikely background was given six months to complete a seemingly impossible project for...

Last week my stepfather, a retired electrical engineer, passed away at the age of 89, and in the boxes and boxes of papers he had kept as...

What did Ada Lovelace do? She is one of the most fetishized scientists today - at conventions when I'm taking sketch commissions she...

In a room across the hall from where I teach, a group of a dozen kids between the ages of nine and thirteen are learning how to program...

A movie star. An avant-garde composer. A radio-controlled torpedo. Wi-Fi. One of the unfortunate truths about our web of modern...

‘Well, some go this way, some go that way. But as for me, myself, personally, I prefer the short-cut.’ – The Cheshire Cat Every morning...

If you’ve been reading my Women in Science column here and there over the last decade, you’ll have been subjected to my intermittent...

Before Elizebeth and William Friedman, American cryptanalysis did not exist. The best thing we had were the puzzle-bestrewn musings of...

The IBM 650 was a marvellous beast. The world’s first mass-produced (and first profitable) computer, it was the mainstay machine of the...