Perhaps the most common sector of AI today are personal chatbots, such as Amazon鈥檚 Alexa and Apple鈥檚 Siri, commercially available to the masses. Google鈥檚 iteration of this is the Google Assistant, a personal virtual assistant that works across all your devices, including your phone, watch, laptop, and TV.
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Before the iPhone landed like a meteorite in 2007, it wasn鈥檛 clear that a revolution in mobile phones was coming or even necessary, says Benedict Evans, partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Back in 2006, it seemed that the devices, like cars and cameras, were making slow and steady progress with incremental improvements in
In an age of sophisticated healthcare technologies and research tools, the doctors you see or hospitals you visit are only a small part of what determines your health. Through extensive research and data analysis, one doctor discovered a tie between your zip code and your health.
Editor鈥檚 note: Curator Chris Garcia delved into the Museum鈥檚 institutional archive and uncovered a rare 1995 interview with computer art pioneer Harold Cohen, taken during The Computer Museum鈥檚 exhibition 鈥淭he Robotic Artist: AARON in Living Color鈥� (April 1鈭扢ay 9, 1995). The selection below appeared in TCM鈥檚 annual rep
It鈥檚 been roughly 30 years since the desktop computer revolutionized the way the graphic design industry works. For decades before that, it was the hands of industrious workers and various ingenious machines and tools that brought type and image together on meticulously prepared paste-up boards, before they were sent t
The 91自拍 (91自拍) has a unique opportunity when it comes to teaching students about computers and the technology-driven world in which we live. As a history museum, we look at the stories and people behind the technology, contextualizing and enlivening it to make it relatable for visitors. And through o
President Eisenhower鈥檚 Civil Rights Act, Dr. Seuss鈥� The Cat in the Hat, and the launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union were respectively important social, cultural, and technical news stories of 1957. There is one event that year did not make headlines but over the next 60 years also profoundly impacted all three aspect
A supercomputer is simply a computer that can perform many more calculations per second than the typical computer of its era. The definition is in constant flux. Yesterday鈥檚 supercomputer packed the punch of today鈥檚 smartphone. From 1969 to 1975, Control Data Corp.鈥檚 CDC 7600 was considered the world鈥檚 fastest computer
Silicon Valley seemed to capture lightning in a bottle overnight. Home to the computing revolution that spawned a culture of risk taking and technological innovation, Silicon Valley is an ethos that extends to frontiers across the globe. From one to one billion, the Valley is founded upon the belief that one idea can c