George Dyson has written a fascinating but flawed history of the computer. The son of the distinguished physicist Freeman Dyson, he was born in 1953 and as a child was witness to the world of ...

A few days ago, I blogged about the success of a research team at U.C. Santa Barbara in creating a quantum computing chip using von Neumann architecture - the type used in virtually all computers ...

In the heart of Manchester, UK, a groundbreaking event took place in 1948: the first modern computer, known as the Manchester Baby, ran its very first program. The Baby’s ability to execute stored ...

A new paradigm in quantum information processing has been demonstrated. Physicists have developed a quantum integrated circuit that implements the quantum von Neumann architecture. In this ...

Physicists in California claim to be the first to implement a quantum version of the “Von Neumann” architecture found in personal computers. Based on superconducting circuits and integrated on a ...

The writings of the developers of the high-speed digital computer during the 1940s suggest that technical knowledge of computers and the human brain produces dissonances with current acculturation, ...