Back in 1996, a computer scientist called Lov Grover at Bell Labs in New Jersey unveiled an unusual algorithm for searching through a database. Searching algorithms are among the most important in ...

The Boston Computer Society (BCS) board of directors decided to cease operations on September 10, 1996. The decision came down just shy of the not-for-profit organization’s 20-year anniversary. BCS ...

The Deep Blue supercomputer was a chess computer developed by IBM. The project began at Carnegie Mellon University with chess computers Hitech, Chiptest, and Deep Thought that used advances in custom ...