ENIAC is considered the world's first fully electronic universal computer. It was programmed by six IT pioneers who were almost forgotten by time. The Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer ...

When it comes to innovation in the computer science field, Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania play a huge role. Technology continues to advance rapidly. Take, for example, the CBS ...

As Philadelphia celebrates its role in the founding of the United States, tech enthusiasts note that 2026 also marks a big year for the region’s role in computing history. This Sunday marks the 80th ...

Welcome to the Fall 2025 & Winter 2026 edition of News Bytes! News Bytes is your go-to source for the latest happenings at Drexel University's College of Computing & Informatics (CCI), where we ...

The modern computer may have begun with a random meeting at a train station in 1944. When mathematician Herman Goldstine told ...

Women’s Day is a moment to recognise women who have shaped different fields, including technology and artificial intelligence.

Researchers at Penn and the University of Michigan have developed the world’s smallest, fully autonomous robots. The health ...

The University of Pennsylvania rolls out the first all-electronic general-purpose digital computer, called ENIAC (one shown). The Colossus electronic computers had been used by British code-breakers ...

The AI revolution has led to many ‘wow‘ moments for the tech world, but this one ranks right up there. Toronto-based AI ...

Last month Perplexity announced the confusingly named “Computer,” its cloud-based agent tool for completing tasks using a harness that makes use of multiple different AI models. This week, the company ...

Apple’s Mac mini is back in the AI headlines. Last month, Perplexity released its own version of the OpenClaw “personal AI assistant” idea with a feature called Perplexity Computer. Now the company is ...

Perplexity wants to be more than just an answer engine. On Wednesday, it launched Personal Computer, a new AI agent tool that can turn a spare Mac into a locally run AI system, pitching it as “a ...