U.S. inventor and Doug Engelbart, the man known as the father of the computer mouse and a thinker who helped introduce other key innovations, died Wednesday morning at age 88. His death was ...

Passage: The father of the computer mouse 02:19 (CBS News) It happened this week: The passing of an inventor whose handiwork is in millions of homes and offices . . . maybe even yours.

Thomas E. Kurtz, who translated the exhilarating power of computer science in the 1960s as the coinventor of BASIC, a programming language that replaced inscrutable numbers and glyphs with ...

Since then, computer programmers have sought to pass what has become known as the Turing test – whether a human can, after a few minutes conversing with it, be fooled into thinking it is human.

In 1951, German inventor Dietrich Prinz created the first chess program of any type to run on an actual electronic computer. He did so on the Ferranti Mark 1 (the first commercially available ...

Though the Iowan’s never-completed computer was not a general-purpose machine and lacked many of Eniac’s groundbreaking attributes (like a “clock” that governed the timing of computational ...

The Inventor of the Chatbot Tried to Warn Us About A.I. Joseph Weizenbaum’s underrated book “Computer Power and Human Reason” cautioned against confusing people with machines.

Engelbart, inventor of computer mouse, dies at 88. AP. Engelbart died early Wednesday ...

The first computer mouse was publicly unveiled in 1968 by its inventor, Douglas C. Engelbart. He invented the computer mouse in 1964 — two decades before it would ship with the first Apple ...

Visionary inventor transformed the way people work%2C play and communicate; He played a role in the creation of ARPANet%2C the government%27s precursor to the worldwide Web ...

The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., where Dr. Engelbart had been a fellow since 2005, confirmed the death. The cause was kidney failure, his wife, Karen O’Leary Engelbart, told ...