MEMS the Word
MEMS, which is short for micro-electro-mechanical systems, may be almost too small to see, but they could play a big role in the future. Read story
Gerard J. Holzmann
MEMS the Word
MEMS, which is short for micro-electro-mechanical systems, may be almost too small to see, but they could play a big role in the future. Read story
And the Credit Goes to?
It's not the inventor toiling in his lab who becomes famous. It's the one who makes the biggest splash. Read story
Tallying Up
A look at the medieval precursor to the credit card. Read story
Taking Stock
Nowadays, fraudulent online stock-trading schemes are common. But even before the first electric telegraph, two bankers committed the equivalent of modern-da... Read story
Castles in the Air
Today's firewall software is comparable to the security systems of ancient castles--it assesses the characteristics of an individual, and then grants or deni... Read story
Just the Fax
Believe it or not, today's fax machine isn't a new technology. The first faxes traveled electronically over telegraph wires more than a century ago. Read story
Ports of Call
Serial and parallel ports, the holes that transmit data from inside a PC to the outside world, were invented in the nineteenth century. Morse's patented tele... Read story
Tales from the Encrypt
Safeguarding computer information from unprivileged eyes isn't a new concept. Encryption devices were invented by the Ancient Greeks and Thomas Jefferson. Read story
Collision Course
A primer on how train wrecks of the past paved the way for safe data transfer today. Read story
The Ties That Bound
This story looks at the long history of long distance networking, a concept that predates the Greeks. Read story
