We often imagine that human consciousness is as simple as input and output of electrical signals within a network of processing units – therefore comparable to a computer. Reality, however, is much more complicated. For starters, we don’t actually know how much information the human brain can hold....
The National Museum of Computing and Google have worked together to chart the history of women's involvement in computer science. The project covers the time from Ada Lovelace (generally recognised as the world's first computer programmer) to the peak of female employment in computer science in the 1980s,...