Transistors wired in series and parallel patterns make up "gates," which accept binary input (0 = no pulse; 1 = pulse) and generate binary output. Although AND requires both inputs to be 1 in order to ...

Googlers pose at a building site in the Netherlands, where the company is building a huge new data centre — much of which will be powered by the work of George Boole (VINCENT JANNINK/AFP/Getty Images) ...

__1815: __English mathematician George Boole, who would help establish what is now known as Boolean logic, is born. Boole's breakthrough was the insight that logic, which had previously been ...

As seen in earlier articles, the only two possible states of information for digital electronics are true and false. Be it an electric current, a numeric datum, or a variable of any kind, the system’s ...

In his report, Von Neumann outlined the architecture of a stored-program digital computer, an ancestor of most computers in use today. (Also that year, Grace Hopper, an admiral in the U.S. Navy, ...