In the early 1950s, most people had never seen a computer. Those who had were unlikely to describe it as anything more than a complicated calculating machine. Computers were expensive, slow by modern ...

Those of us who study computers learn about the different kinds of machine and their different capabilities. They've got names like deterministic finite automata, nondeterministic finite automata, and ...

Alan Turing, the father of computer science and artificial intelligence who broke Adolf Hitler's Enigma code system in World War II — but who died an outcast because of his homosexuality — will be ...