The use of computers as props brings authenticity to works on the big and small screens, and can also inspire many different feelings in the viewer. Early filmmakers contributed powerful visions of ...

Paul Allen’s Seattle museums are getting a face-lift. As the EMP Museum at Seattle Center became the Museum of Pop Culture on Tuesday, a few miles down the road in Sodo members of the media were ...

In a lab rack that looks more like a high-end audio system than a server, clusters of human brain cells are quietly learning to process information. Electrodes feed them signals, nutrients keep them ...

The brain is powerful, and computers are powerful—why not harness their strength combined? Researchers at the University of Illinois (UIUC) have built a “living computer” using mouse brain cells in a ...

Lath Carlson might have the best job in the world. He oversees the world's largest working collection of vintage computers in his role as executive director of Living Computers: Museum + Labs, a ...

Anyone interested in the history of personal computing will surely have heard of the Xerox Alto, but when’s the last time you got to play with one? It’s been a while even for Paul Allen — long enough ...