It's 40 years since packet switching was invented by a team at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Bushy Park, Middlesex. This photo gallery takes a nostalgic look at the neonatal internet, and its proud parent.
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More than 60 years after the end of World War II, a distributed computing project has managed to crack a previously uncracked message that was encrypted using the Enigma machine.
Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf, who developed the TCP/IP protocols used to transmit traffic across the Internet, will this week receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civil award.
Work done more than thirty years ago led to the modern Internet - and recognition on Wednesday for those who made it possible.
Microsoft has released its second commercial starring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld. Have you seen it yet?
As England's historic Bletchley Park raises funds to restore buildings used by code-breaking legends such as Alan Turing during World War II, ZDNet.com.au 's sister site CNET News.com is taking a look back at the cryptographic machines that kept vital specialists of the German, American, British, Polish, and Japanese military forces awake at night.
Microsoft's chairman says that despite today's outsourcing trend, the United States needs to refocus on leading in computer science -- starting at its universities.
Despite the promise of the tech industry, fewer young people are choosing to study computer science, says the Microsoft co-founder.
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Machines that listen and talk like humans are becoming a reality, researchers and tech executives say.
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A Belgian professor doing research for Sony wants to teach robots to be more like people--but he's running into some resistance.
"What is intelligence?" The answer for now is, we don't know. But that hasn't stopped researchers from designing systems that act independently of human beings, learn from experience, and make decisions.
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