Mechanical computing platforms could operate where it isn't possible to use silicon chips.

Thomas E. Kurtz, a pioneering mathematician at Dartmouth College and an inventor of the simplified computer programming language known as BASIC, which allowed students to easily operate early ...

It has no wires, no silicon chips, and needs zero electricity. Yet, it computes. Researchers from St. Olaf College and ...

While most of the world has just about got to grips with basic computing, D-Wave cofounder Eric Ladizinsky is trying to get to grips with quantum computing. "I'm very concerned about the future," he ...

At Dartmouth, long before the days of laptops and smartphones, he worked to give more students access to computers. That work helped propel generations into a new world. By Kenneth R. Rosen Thomas E.