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 ...

The founding members of the Modern Computing Alliance -- Google, Box, Citrix, Dell, Imprivata, Okta, RingCentral, Slack, VMWare and Zoom -- are gunning for more integration, better handling of ...

Humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, smartphones, smart home devices, and even something as mundane as a TV remote or a coffee machine all share a quiet commonality. At the heart of most of this ...

Editor’s note: This is the 67th article in the “Real Words or Buzzwords?” series about how real words become empty words and stifle technology progress. Edge computing is used to process device data ...

In the era of end-user computing, the terms ‘next gen’ and ‘revolutionary’ are commonly used to refer to the shift away from outdated legacy Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) systems to a modern, ...

Don Rucker oversaw the beginning of a project to connect electronic health records nationwide when he was the government’s national coordinator for health IT during the Trump administration. The ...

Hamilton's team wrote the software that kept Apollo 11's Moon landing going when its computer overloaded. She died on ...

Quantum technology has reached a turning point, echoing the early days of modern computing. Researchers say functional quantum systems now exist, but scaling them into truly powerful machines will ...

This book covers modern computing from the development of the first electronic digital computer through the dot-com crash. The author concentrates on five key moments of transition: the transformation ...

Announced today, the Modern Computing Alliance brings together Google and other big enterprise players to “address the biggest IT challenges facing companies today with integration from silicon to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gil Press writes about technology, entrepreneurs and innovation. Observing over the course of four decades how the world learned ...