Meet Melba Roy Mouton, the Space Race mathematician and keeper of orbiting satellites
Roy Mouton, a mathematician and programmer, was a sort of hidden figure in Hidden Figures
Hedy Lamarr: actress, inventor, wartime code maker
“Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid”
Our computers are limited by their rock-based architecture
It's time to rethink computing from the ground up and model it on nature's processes
Your language brain matters more for learning programming than your math brain
New research contradicts long held assumptions about coding
A new machine can translate brain activity directly into written sentences
Translating up to 50 sentences at once, it's about as accurate as human transcription
We can't have a future with quantum computers without quantum mechanics
Scientists are building physical platforms for memory, computation, and networking — all things we need for quantum computing to be possible
Artificial intelligence isn't very intelligent and won't be any time soon
For all of the recent advances in artificial intelligence, machines still struggle with common sense
Rear Admiral Amazing Grace Hopper taught computers English
She recorded the first computer bug when a moth got caught in a relay switch
With new technology, mind control is no longer science-fiction
We can only transmit basic signals between brains, but we should consider the ethics before moving on to complex thoughts
Meet Ada Lovelace, the world’s first computer programmer
A "prophet of the computer age," she saw the potential for computers outside of pure mathematics
I had to learn assembly language to truly understand my grandfather
He didn't process the world like the rest of us