The abbreviation has become so ubiquitous that most people never stop to wonder what it means. Here’s the answer — and the ...

Millennials are often celebrated as cultural trailblazers, credited with revolutionizing everything from food trends to ...

Illinois’ commitments to quantum are proof that we are done letting the value created here be captured somewhere else.

The LEO 1 – short for Lyons Electric Office - is in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s first business computer. It was developed to run internal orders and payroll for J. Lyons & Co, which ...

As part of NPR's 250th anniversary series America in Pursuit, we're taking a look back at one of America's most significant inventions: the telephone.

It's been over four decades since Steve Wozniak left Apple, but as co-founder and creator of the firm's first computers, Woz ...

A research scientist at Lockheed, he came up with the idea for a computer system that would search scientific and technical ...

Few items are so imperceptible to the public, yet so essential to their lives, as the semiconductor. The computer chip powers the machinery, systems and interfaces that people interact with on a daily ...

From the lightbulb to the airplane, to medical breakthroughs and the internet age, the past 250 years have been defined by America's intrepid intellect.

Generations of children have learned how pioneers traveled the Oregon Trail, not in dusty textbooks but in a video game with decidedly '80s-era computer graphics. Since it was introduced in 1971, "The ...

On July 31, 1790, President George Washington affixed his elegant signature to a single piece of parchment. The short document credited Samuel Hopkins of Philadelphia with having “discovered an ...