It’s almost time to celebrate George Boole’s 200th birthday. Or maybe we should call it Birthday No. 11001000. You might have a hard time converting that binary number to decimal in your head. But it ...

George Boole gets left out of most timelines of computer history. Babbage, Lovelace, Turing—sure, they’re all there. Only rarely does the grandfather of digital logic get his due. Perhaps it’s because ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Isaac Newton, Wikipedia tells us, “is widely ...