Part I: from the earliest times to A.D.1750 -- General historical survey -- The production of food -- Production for domestic needs -- The extraction and working of metals -- Building construction -- ...

Over the summer of 1956 a small but illustrious group gathered at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire; it included Claude Shannon, the begetter of information theory, and Herb Simon, the only person ...

Cynicism is a quality taken almost for granted in tech journalism, and certainly we are as guilty as the next publication. But both the risk and the promise of technology are real, and a new ...