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Museum of computing looks for new home
News Staff at The Museum of Computing in Swindon are hopeful of finding a new site after being given office space to store its thousands of exhibits for 18 months. A museum dedicated to the history of computing is looking for a new home and its... [02 Jul 2008]
Photos: Babbage's Difference masterpiece in action
Photo Charles Babbage's Difference Engine number 2 is making its US debut at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Photo credit: Computer History Museum Photo credit: Computer History Museum [12 May 2008]
India's high-tech cities, web whispers, Babbage's Difference engine and more...
Photo Tech millionaire Nathan Myhrvold commissioned London's Science Museum to make him a version of Charles Babbage's famous Difference engine, a machine designed to mechanically calculate polynomial functions. [29 Apr 2008]
Museum Reduces Content Delivery Time From Days to Minutes
White Paper The Denver Museum of Nature & Science serves a membership base of 40,000 households and is the Rocky Mountain region's leading informal science educator, promoting the understanding of the universe, nature, science and human cultures. [24 Mar 2008]
Swedish Museum Makes 10 Percent Time Savings on Network Management
White Paper Varmlands Museum attracts approximately 200,000 visitors every year who want to see how people in the Swedish region of Varmland lived in the past. In 1998 the museum had only one server and five computers. [19 Feb 2008]
Photos: Virgin goes Galactic for SpaceShipTwo
Photo The original SpaceShipOne, which flew to space three times in 2004, is now on display in the Milestones of Flight Gallery at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson (left) and Scaled... [24 Jan 2008]
Photos: Vintage arcade games... revealed
Photo The computer is on show as part of the Game On exhibition at London's Science Museum. This is Computer Space, the first commercial computer game, from 1970. Those who played on the table-top up-facing screen of Space Invaders II will remember how... [28 Nov 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Good-bye CDs
Comment Accessing a floppy now seems to warrant a trip to a museum and I cannot remember the last time I saw one being used. Suddenly CDs will be gone, consigned to the museum with floppies and VHS tapes! This is only just enough space for a full HD movie! [14 Jul 2006]
Librarians furious at Intel over Moore's Law bounty
News We actually have in our posting that we will not buy library or museum copies from anyone other than those organizations themselves. There was a glaring space on the shelf where the bound volume containing the 19 April 1965 edition of Electronics... [15 Apr 2005]
Service to rise from ashes of MP3.com, says CNET
News MP3.com's founder, Michael Robertson, sent out a message from his current company, Lindows.com, under the heading 'Digital Museum Burns to the Ground'. But CNET said it will create a new service similar to the old MP3.com early next year, offering... [27 Nov 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: My life bits
Comment Trying the get a 35mm viewer or projector is now like trying to get a turntable for your hi-fi - you have to go to a museum! Now digital photographs cost nothing but hard drive space (and at 4-5 megapixels per pic they are more or less the equal of... [10 Jul 2003]
Abraham Lincoln's pardons sold on eBay
News In addition to Lincoln's pardons, the stolen items included civil war documents, slave trade documents and autographed photographs of astronauts taken during Apollo and Space Shuttle missions. Dozens of American documents of immense historic value... [12 Feb 2002]
Trekkies see science fiction become science fact
News As the visitors to the recent Star Trek-inspired 'Federation Science' exhibition at London's Science Museum mull over the technology within the science fiction series, people around them are walking around, freely talking on communicators the size... [30 May 2001]
$96m technology museum moves to San Jose
News Silicon Valley's Tech Museum is moving to a new site in San Jose, California at the end of this month. The $96m hands-on museum and learning centre will specialise in interactivity such as a design-it-yourself virtual roller coaster and a jet... [16 Oct 1998]
