The 8th IT STAR international conference on 19 September 2014 was held in the most appropriate venue, the Agora of Szeged that houses the large-scale Exhibition of Computer History
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A film with the title The Imitation Game was produced about the life of Alan Turing, the British mathematician genius, Second World War codebreaker, and pioneer in the research of artificial intelligence.
The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC , www.tnmoc.org) in the UK has recently launched a new project with the aim to “recreate” Robinson
The National Museum of Computing in the UK (TNMOC, www.tnmoc.org) awaited visitors with two special exhibits on the second weekend in August.
In addition to being a matter of curiosity, the story of ISEE-3 is important as it reveals that the private sector can also make significant contributions to space research, which used to be the exclusive monopoly of governments and the military.
The web was not yet around, Tim Berners-Lee was working on it at full speed, when the very first e-mail was sent from Space on 28 August 1991.
The 31st of August in 1994 marks an important date in software history: Aldus Corp. and Adobe Systems Inc. finalised the merger of the two companies on this day.
Vladimir Zvorykin, the Russian born engineer, inventor, pioneer of television technology, and father of the cathode ray tube, was born on 30 July 1889.
The robot called Viking I landed on the Red Planet on 20 July 1976. It was the first robot to explore Mars.
Perhaps the best-known digital game of all times, the cultic Tetris (tetris.com) turned thirty years old in June.