Steven Wallach is completing the soul of his newest machine. Thirty years ago, Wallach was one of a small team of computer designers profiled by Tracy Kidder in his Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller ...

The beginnings of digital drafting and computational design will be on display at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) starting November 13 th, as the museum presents Thinking Machines: Art and Design in ...

In the 18th century home craft textile workers were displaced by mass production in organized factories. Some of these displaced workers destroyed knitting equipment in these new factories. In England ...

A line of engineering research seeks to develop computers that can tackle a class of challenges called combinatorial optimization problems. These are common in real-world applications such as ...

Barbara Liskov pioneered the modern approach to writing code. She warns that the challenges facing computer science today can’t be overcome with good design alone. Good code has both substance and ...

You don’t have to be computer savvy to understand the vision of Steve Jobs. Architect Peter Bohlin who designed Apple’s epic glass cube for the Fifth Avenue store in New York is “a total computer ...

Architect Frank Gehry’s celebrated design for the Stata Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is making headlines again — this time because of a lawsuit by MIT claiming deficient design ...