Mechanical computers may not oversee today’s automated tasks, but it’s still possible to build your own using literal ...

He applied the language to early Microsoft products. Last year, when Dr. Kurtz was honored as a fellow of the Computer History Museum, Gates, in a video for the museum, congratulated him on the award.

Douglas Engelbart, a Silicon Valley engineer who invented the computer mouse and is credited with many of the concepts that underpin modern computing and the Internet, died on Tuesday at his home ...

As the first-ever professional Chinese input operator, Lew was tasked with showing off Chung-chin Kao’s innovative Chinese ...

I'm watching the demo, and it looks just like a computer screen today, except the fonts are lamer. And then you realize, wait a minute, this guy's using a mouse and hyperlinks, in **1968**.

Jean Bartik, ENIAC computer programmer David Bradley, inventor of the ‘three-fingered salute’ Lynn Conway and Carver Mead, VLSI chip pioneers Marty Goetz, holder of the first software patent ...

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.

Adam Osborne, the man behind the first portable computer, has died. He sold tens of thousands of the Osborne-1, which at 23 pounds barely qualified as ...

William "Bill" English, the engineer who helped create the first computer mouse, died July 26 in California. He was 91. Posted 9:41 a.m. Aug 5, 2020 - Updated 9:38 a.m. Aug 5, 2020 By by Oliver Effron ...

The inventor of the computer mouse, Doug Engelbart, has died aged 88. Engelbart developed the tool in the 1960s as a wooden shell covering two metal wheels, patenting it long before the mouse's ...

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 ...

Doug Engelbart, a visionary who invented the computer mouse and developed other technology that has transformed the way people work, play and communicate, died late Tuesday. He was 88.