Smithsonian Magazine

Before Computers Were Machines, They Were Women—Here Are Six Places Where Human Computers Built Modern Science

From AT&T to NASA, women working as computers performed the calculations that made modern science possible. In the early ...
Nature

Human-Computer Interaction in Virtual Environments

The field of Human-Computer Interaction in virtual environments represents a dynamic interdisciplinary area where advances in computer science, psychology and design converge to create immersive and ...
Nature

Human-Computer Interaction

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is a multidisciplinary field that explores the design, evaluation and implementation of interactive computing systems for human use. Traditionally rooted in the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

New Partnership Illuminates Hidden Record of NASA’s Human Computers

NASA research mathematician Katherine Johnson is photographed at her desk at Langley Research Center in 1966. Johnson made critical technical contributions during her career of 33 years, which ...
CMS Wire

AI Visionaries: Haiyi Zhu Explores Human-Computer Interaction in the AI Era

How will AI empower humans? Dr. Haiyi Zhu explores this topic and more in this second article in a series on AI visionaries. The impact of AI on customer experience is expected to be significant in ...

Anthropic's Claude AI gets human-like computer skills, can build apps, fix bugs and more

On Monday, Anthropic rolled out a new update for Claude AI, adding ‘computer use’ capabilities that let the chatbot operate ...
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A computer used to be a person – from human computers to intelligent systems: Namibia’s place in the next era of computing

CRAN Engineering and Technical Services Executive. There was a time when the word computer did not refer to a machine at all. It referred to a person – someone employed to perform calculations. Before ...