It is wild to think about, but the mobile devices we carry in our pockets and hold in the palms of our hands today are orders of magnitude more powerful than some of the original computers — ...

Sometimes it is hard to remember just how far computers have come in the last three or four decades. An old NASA video (see below) has been restored with better sound and video recently that shows ...

In 1976, Seymour Cray designed and Cay Research, Inc. released the Cray-1 supercomputer, said to be ten times more powerful than any other computer in the world. In 1985, the company released the Cray ...

There is no denying that technology has improved — but by how much? People often take smartphones for granted. Everyone has one glued to their hand, with music, social media, texting, calling, and ...

One of the most common ways of comparing the processing power of some microcontroller or older smartphone in a fantastical way was to say that they had more processing power than the Apollo Guidance ...

In 1960, he completed the design of the Control Data 1604, the first computer to be fully transistorized. He also began the design of the first supercomputer, the CDC 6600, which was also the first to ...

If you've never heard of Cray, shame on you. Here's a bit on Cray's enigmatic founder for those that haven't attended geek school. Born in 1926, Seymour Cray started working on computers as an ...

It's absolutely astonishing how fast computer technology has progressed in the last 30 years. "When benchmarking the Apple iPad 2, the University of Tennessee employee achieved 4 GFLOPS per Watt on ...