Your very own humane interface: Try Jef Raskin’s ideas at home

In 2002, Raskin, along with his son Aza and the rest of the development team, built a software implementation of his ...
Communications of the ACM

The Innovation Engine: Government-Funded Academic Research

Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC).25 Simplified instruction sets enabled faster microprocessors. Today, 99% of all ...
University of Delaware

An emerging leader in computing

Now, Chandrasekaran has been selected to receive a prestigious global honor. ACM, the world’s largest computing society, has ...
Hackaday

The Microtronic Phoenix Computer System

A team of hackers, [Jason T. Jacques], [Decle], and [Michael A. Wessel], have collaborated to deliver the Microtronic Phoenix Computer System. In 1981 the Busch 2090 Microtronic Computer System ...
Hackaday

Computer Has One Instruction, Many Transistors

There’s always some debate around what style of architecture is best for certain computing applications, with some on the ...
XDA Developers on MSN

Windows lives on the C: drive, and the reason it's not called A: or B: goes back to the 1970s

In the era of floppy disks and early operating systems like CP/M and MS-DOS, A: and B: were reserved for floppy disk drives, ...
Nature

Computer science articles from across Nature Portfolio

Computer science is the study and development of the protocols required for automated processing and manipulation of data. This includes, for example, creating algorithms for efficiently searching ...
Investopedia

Data Loss: What it is, How it Works, Common Causes

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial ...