The Houston Symphony debuted Karim Al-Zand’s latest work “Al-Jazari’s Ingenious Clocks” last weekend, bringing to life the intricate timepieces of a 12th-century inventor through music. The piece was ...

He even influenced modern systems of the steam engine and to some extent, automatic controls. Al-Jazari was a genius born in the 12th century and he died in the early 13th century. His skills were ...

Today, robots are everywhere. We even worry about them taking our jobs. But the history of automation goes back some 900 years, when Ismail al-Jazari, a Muslim scholar, invented the first robotics, ...

Today, robots are everywhere. We even worry about them taking our jobs. But the history of automation goes back some 900 years, when Ismail al-Jazari, a Muslim scholar, invented the first robotics, ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. At the beginning of the thirteenth ...

The Houston Symphony is embarking on a series of concerts that recast the stories of some of the most famous fairy tales — "Cinderella," "The Little Mermaid" and the like — but composer Karim Al-Zand ...

Once upon a time, bands that wanted percussion in their music needed a real live human to keep the beat. That all began to change with an inventor named Ismail al-Jazari. He wrote a book called The ...