The world of computers in the 1980s feels like a time capsule compared to today’s light and thin machines. Long gone are the days of multiple components making up a single computer space, as the 1980s ...

In the late 1980s, computer scientist Leslie Lam­port, MA’63, PhD’72, H’17, decided the best way to explain his latest theory was to make up a story about Paxos, a small island in Greece. During ...

But the report ominously notes that Politburo security decisions in the early 1980s were in the hands of a very limited number of people. The computer program only had to convince the majority of ...