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 ...

Subject: The world”s most powerful computer goes to work on the problems of tomorrow An average human being on a good day might be able to add or subtract perhaps two or three numbers in a second. The ...

With unique and outstanding achievements in mathematics and science, John von Neumann was on an intellectual level far above us; the oft-misused term “genius” truly applies to him. Brilliant in both ...

Alex Knapp is a Forbes senior editor covering healthcare and science. Von Neumann architecture is at the heart of whatever device you're reading this article on, be it computer, tablet or phone.

To date, quantum computers have been implemented so that programming their operation was, in essence, hardwired into their essential structure. Although many useful demonstrations of quantum computing ...

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have become the first to combine a quantum processor with memory that can be used to store instructions and data. This achievement in ...