On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor. John Bardeen, ...

Messages transmitted between two computers located about 380 miles apart would form the basis of what would become the ...

On May 7, 1981, influential physicist Richard Feynman gave a keynote speech at Caltech. Feynman opened his talk by politely rejecting the very notion of a keynote speech, instead saying that he had ...

Although quantum computing is a nascent field, there are plenty of key moments that defined it over the last few decades as scientists strive to create machines that can solve impossible problems.

Neuromorphic computing aims to replicate the functional architecture of the human brain by integrating electronic components that mimic synaptic and neuronal behaviours. Central to this endeavour are ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation announced it is granting $12 million in funds for a project to explore ways to ‘decarbonize’ computation. The University of Chicago is a key partner in the project ...