Grace Hertlein’s collection is “a kaleidoscopic snapshot of the early decades of an art historical and technological phenomenon.” Courtesy Sotheby's It’s Geek Week at Sotheby’s—the auction house’s ...
Mark Wilson, “Untitled Gray Ground & Untitled Light Gray Ground” (1973) (click to enlarge) Personal computing may have begun in the 1980s but the history of computer art started much earlier during a ...
The first computer didn’t show up looking like anything we’d call a computer now. There was no screen, no keyboard, no mouse, and definitely no controller waiting beside it. Early computers were built ...
Apple filed a patent application for a desktop computer that’s also a keyboard. If that seems familiar, it’s the design used by some of the first personal computers back in the 1900s. Because even old ...
Arthur W. Burks, a member of the team that designed the Eniac computer, a frequent collaborator of John von Neumann and a pioneer in computing education, died Wednesday at a nursing home in Ann Arbor, ...