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How was the wheel invented? Computer simulations reveal the unlikely birth of a world-changing technology

Imagine you're a copper miner in southeastern Europe in the year 3900 B.C.E. Day after day you haul copper ore through the mine's sweltering tunnels. You've resigned yourself to the grueling monotony ...
Drexel University

40 Years Ago, Drexel Made Computer — and Apple — History

Drexel was prepared to buy IBM computers — and had equipped its computer centers with IBMs for decades — but the cost came to more than $1,000 per unit. IBM’s young competitor Apple, on the other hand ...
Futurism

Computer Made From Human Brain Cells Can Perform Voice Recognition

Researchers have created a “biocomputer” made up of lab-grown human brain tissue and electronic circuits that they say can perform tasks including voice recognition. The idea is to build a “bridge ...
Drexel University

40 Years Ago, Drexel Made Computer — and Apple — History

“The freshmen now entering Drexel [in the early 1980s] will spend the greater portion of their professional lives in the 21st century, in an environment in which the computer will be an everyday, even ...
SFGate

How was the wheel invented? Computer simulations reveal the unlikely birth of a world-changing technology nearly 6,000 years ago

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kai James, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) Imagine you’re a copper ...