Crash Course
Alan Turing: Crash Course Computer Science
Today we’re going to take a step back from programming and discuss the person who formulated many of the theoretical concepts that underlie modern computation - the father of computer science himself: Alan Turing. Now normally we try to...
Curated Video
History of Computer Science for Kids | Bedtime History
Learn about the history of computer technology, from the abacus of the ancient world to smartphones of the modern age.
Crash Course
The Computer and Turing: Crash Course History of Science
Computers and computing have changed a lot over the History of Science but ESPECIALLY over the last 100 years. In this episode of Crash Course History of Science, we have a look at that history around World War Two and how that conflict...
Curated Video
History of Computer Science Made Easy
Discover how computer science began—from early calculators and codes to the powerful computers we use today. Meet key thinkers like Ada Lovelace and Alan Turing, and learn how programming, algorithms, and problem-solving led to the...
Crash Course
The Internet and Computing: Crash Course History of Science
We’ve talked a lot about advances in biotech. But none of those could have happened without advances in computing. It’s time to get back to data and explore the unlikely birth, strange life, and potential futures of the Internet. In this...
Crash Course
Early Programming: Crash Course Computer Science
Since Joseph Marie Jacquard’s textile loom in 1801, there has been a demonstrated need to give our machines instructions. In the last few episodes, our instructions were already in our computer’s memory, but we need to talk about how...
Crash Course
Memory & Storage: Crash Course Computer Science
So we’ve talked about computer memory a couple times in this series, but what we haven’t talked about is storage. Data written to storage, like your hard drive, is a little different, because it will still be there even if the power goes...
PBS
Why Are There So Few Women in Computer Science?
Today, we think of computer science as a field dominated by men, but the women have a long and important history in the field. In fact women were many of the very first computer programmers, played a hugely important part in the...
Be Smart
The History of Money (From Barter To Bitcoin)
Money. We all use it. But is it real? I mean, you can touch a coin or bill, but who decided that’s worth anything? And what about all those 1’s and 0’s getting swapped and traded by computers thousands of times per second? How are those...
Gresham College
Alan Turing: The Founder of Computer Science - Professor Jonathan Bowen
Professor Jonathan Bowen reflects on the brilliant work and tragic life of Alan Turing, the founder of computer science. This is a part of the 2013 Gresham College / British Society of the History of Mathematics conference. The...
SciShow
How the Web Became a Thing | The History of the Internet, Part 2
In part 2 of our History of the Internet series, Hank explains how public access became declared a human right!
SciShow
A Brief History of Robotics
Why don’t we have robots taking care of our every need by now? A little history of the field of robotics might help you understand how hard it is to get machines to perform tasks, and how far we’ve come in just a few decades.
Crash Course
The First Programming Languages: Crash Course Computer Science
So we ended last episode with programming at the hardware level with things like plugboards and huge panels of switches, but what was really needed was a more versatile way to program computers - software! For much of this series we’ve...
Crash Course
Keyboards & Command Line Interfaces: Crash Course Computer Science
Today, we are going to start our discussion on user experience. We've talked a lot in this series about how computers move data around within the computer, but not so much about our role in the process. So today, we're going to look at...
Crash Course
The Cold War and Consumerism: Crash Course Computer Science
Today we’re going to step back from hardware and software, and take a closer look at how the backdrop of the cold war and space race and the rise of consumerism and globalization brought us from huge, expensive codebreaking machines in...
Curated Video
Create a computer vision system using decision tree algorithms to solve a real-world problem : A Brief History of Autonomous Vehicles
From the section: Introduction to Self-Driving Cars. In this section, we’ll cover a brief history and an overall outcome that you can expect by the end of this course. Introduction to Self-Driving Cars: A Brief History of Autonomous...
Zach Star
The History of Mathematics and Its Applications
The History of Mathematics and Its Applications
SciShow
The Data Explosion | The History of the Internet, Part 3
Nearly twenty years after the dot-com bubble burst, the internet is an essential piece of the modern world, with the public side mostly commanded by a few powerful companies.
SciShow
The Data Explosion | The History of the Internet, Part 3
Nearly twenty years after the dot-com bubble burst, the internet is an essential piece of the modern world, with the public side mostly commanded by a few powerful companies.
TED Talks
TED: A 30-year history of the future | Nicholas Negroponte
MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte takes you on a journey through the last 30 years of tech. The consummate predictor highlights interfaces and innovations he foresaw in the 1970s and 1980s that were scoffed at then but are...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: A brief history of video games (Part I) - Safwat Saleem
Video games are everywhere these days, but where did they actually come from? The history of video games is a complicated story that involves giant computers in science labs, the founder of Chuck E. Cheese and billions of dollars in...
World Science Festival
Walter Isaacson: The History Of The Future
The history of computers is a history of competition and collaboration: Innovators have worked together, but also clashed over the place of computers in society and how they should function. Those clashes—between privacy and openness,...
Curated Video
Why Are There So Few Women in Computer Science?
Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/DonateORIG Subscribe to Origin of Everything! http://bit.ly/originsub Today, we think of computer science as a field dominated...
SciShow
The Times and Troubles of the Scientific Method
UPDATE: We got a couple of things wrong when it comes to gravity (particularly that it has nothing to do with photons). Science is working tirelessly night and day to disprove its own theories about how the universe works (or at least,...