She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

Unveiled in 1947, the MingKwai typewriter was the product of a Chinese novelist’s yearslong obsession to build a machine that ...

A new transceiver invented by electrical engineers at the University of California, Irvine boosts radio frequencies into ...

A new silicon chip transceiver invented at UC Irvine is ultrafast and energy-efficient. The innovation relies on a unique mix of analog and digital technologies. It facilitates connected cities, ...

An auction to commemorate Apple's upcoming 50th anniversary includes Apple's first check and a rare prototype board. Personal ...

For the past year, I kept bringing the same story to my editor: quantum computers are on the edge of becoming useful for scientific discovery. Of course, that has always been the goal. The idea of ...

U.S. inventor Douglas Engelbart was one of the visionaries of the computer age. Besides inventing the computer mouse, his insight laid the... Douglas Engelbart Dies At 88, Invented Computer Mouse ...

President Donald Trump alleged that he invented a word that has been officially recognized for centuries. The word has been around since the 1590s. On Monday, December 15, 2025, Trump hosted a Mexican ...

Dr. Shaw and Dr. Hilton teach software engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. For decades, computer science students have been taught a central skill: using computers to solve problems. In ...

ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS, N.J.—Erich Arcement was standing outside his New Jersey home one morning last October when a truck driver called to ask what time his store opened for deliveries. Arcement later ...

Quantinuum, the $10 billion firm that’s become one of the biggest players in quantum computing, unveiled its latest computer Wednesday. The Helios machine represents an important leap in terms of ...

In December 2009, Bradley Burnam woke up to see a horrifying sight in the mirror. “This whole side of my head was black, and my ear was like twice its normal size and hot because it was infected,” he ...