The world's first business computer was developed by the Lyons' tea-shop company, based on the University of Cambridge's EDSAC. A plaque has now been installed in Hammersmith, west London, where LEO started running in 1951.
Randall Munroe, author of the xkcd comic strip, has published Thing Explainer, a "how stuff works" book that explains things using diagrams and the thousand most common words. It's the Up-Goer Five idea expanded to a wide range of subjects.
The National Museum of Computing's annual Summer Bytes festival will include a string of coding, code-breaking, robotics and other events designed to entertain kids during the school holidays
Satya Nadella and Tim Cook may not be as well known as Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin and Pope Francis but they appear alongside them in the latest Time magazine list. However, the tech industry choices are not always the ones you might expect
The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park near Milton Keynes is targeting kids of all ages with its Easter Bytes festival, which will run from April 1 - 12
Thanks to the seasonal holiday, I finally got around to reading Rogue Code, the third techno-thriller in the Jeff Aiken series. Like Zero Day and Trojan Horse, it delivers entertainment with serious messages about cybersecurity.
The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park has unveiled its ongoing construction of a replica of Cambridge University's EDSAC computer (1949-58), which helped pioneer novel concepts such as "programming" and "users".
The UK's National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) held a competition for child visitors to build LEGO models of some of the computers in its display. This was the result...
Don't be misled by tech industry figures deleting all their unread emails: at best it's a temporary solution to "email overload". The real answer is to change the way you process email.
The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park has taken delivery of "one of the first mass-produced business computers," a 1960s ICT 1301 known as Flossie. In her prime, she was futuristic enough to appear in The Man With The Golden Gun, Doctor Who, and Blake's 7.
