📰 IEEE Spectrum

In the late 1940s—when computer engineers were grappling with unreliable hardware and noisy transmission environments—a team of engineers inside a modest lab at

This year marks the 80th anniversary of ENIAC , the first general-purpose digital computer. The computer was built during World War II to speed up ballistics ca

Facial recognition technology (FRT) dates back 60 years. Just over a decade ago, deep-learning methods tipped the technology into more useful— and menacing —ter