The abacus, a simple counting aid, may have been invented in Babylonia (now Iraq ... Babbage's next idea is the Analytical Engine - a mechanical computer that can solve any mathematical problem.

Bill Gates and Paul Allen form Traf-O-Data in 1971 to sell their computer traffic-analysis systems. 1972: Gary Kildall writes PL/M, the first high-level programming language for the Intel ...

The design would serve as inspiration for the development of IBM's mass-market personal computer line. In 1988, the SCAMP prototype was exhibited at the National Museum of American History, with ...

long before most of the technologies necessary to build it were even invented. That design was the Dynabook, and its author was computer scientist Alan Kay. Its intended audience was children.

a director of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. He worked alongside English and many other computing pioneers in the 1970s. William Kirk English was born on Jan 27 ...

"so I invented the COMPUTER TYPING KEYBOARD TEST COVER. My design could fit any standard keyboard, and it could help promote higher typing speed, efficiency, and accuracy." The patent-pending ...