Famously, the first long-distance message Samuel Morse sent on the telegraph was “What hath God wrought?” When it comes to digital progress, it’s a question that’s still being answered. The telegraph ...

On July 15, the Bank of England revealed Alan Turing, a pioneer of computer science and artificial intelligence, will be the face of the new £50 note. One thing the announcement didn’t touch on, ...

How It Works This diagram shows one form of binary compatibility between two computer architectures. The one on the left uses a single Intel processor, while the one on the right uses dual processors ...

Quantum computing promises to solve problems binary computers can’t, but new research from a team in New York shows the old school isn’t ready for retirement just yet. In June 2023, a team of ...

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Both are based on binary systems, and the Dutch artist Anna Lucia Goense is mining that fact for inspiration. By Libby Banks Reporting from Berlin Needlework and computer coding might seem to be ...

An algorithm is given for constructing an alphabetic binary tree of minimum weighted path length (for short, an optimal alphabetic tree). The algorithm needs 4n 2 + 2n operations and 4n storage ...