Radio World

Early Adopters: When Computers First Met Radio

In Boston in the 1970s, Tom Vernon writes, a few early adopters in radio had envisioned many of the computer applications ...
Smithsonian Magazine

In the Early Days of Machine Learning, Massive Computers Said George Harrison Was a Woman. A.I. Has Come a Long Way

A Cornell professor designed a room-size network of sensors that represented a single neuron. He claimed it would grow wiser ...
Smithsonian Magazine

When the Fear of Polio Gripped the World, Jonas Salk’s Determination Led to a Liberating Medical Breakthrough

The son of the doctor, himself now a physician and researcher, recalls his vaccination in the kitchen as painless. Now, he ...
Scientific American

The programmer whose code underpins the Internet

Sharla Boehm, a math teacher, spent her summers coding. She’d go on to build what would eventually evolve into the Internet ...