The only known photographs of Ada Lovelace have been acquired by London's National Portrait Gallery after going up for ...

The world's earliest computer was a silk loom built in China over two millennia ago, according to a claim made by China's ...

She was trying to prove the structure of the B form of DNA through mathematical computations and more than 100 hours of ...

The noisy Victorian world annoyed the mathematician, philosopher and inventor Charles Babbage, who came up with the idea of a programmable computer. He wrote letters complaining about it and a ...

He was completely unaware that this one minor character would attain a massive cult following amongst Star Wars fans, purely ...

A statue of pioneering 19th Century mathematician Ada Lovelace has been installed in the town near her childhood home.

He built the Great Mosque at Timbuktu, and Timbuktu became a very important commercial city, having caravan connections with ...

In 1966, professor Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot called Eliza. His intentions were noble, but the results shocked him. Eliza was a computerised ‘psychotherapist’ that its creator believed would ...

Computers have become an essential part of our everyday lives. Students are using computers daily through their need to attend online classes, play games, searching information, or do their school ...

On July 8, 1835, an English nobleman, the 8th Baron King, was married in what was, by all accounts, a pleasant wedding, though it was a much smaller affair than one might have expected, given the ...

"He went way above budget to get the extra height for the walls, while all the townspeople were mad about the tax expenditure ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1840, the English mathematician ...