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.

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

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 ...

According to the video below, the inventor of the first digital computer was John V. Atanasoff. This video tells the story of Atanasoff’s work on creating the Atanasoff-Berry computer. Atanasoff ...

On December 9, 1968, a presentation was given by Douglas Engelbart that rocked the computer world and has since gone down in history as the Mother of All Demos.

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 ...

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.

ITworld.com – David Geer recently spoke with Fred Cohen, an early and principal inventor of computer virus defense techniques, a widely sought information protection consultant, and author of ...

Robert Dennard, an engineer at IBM whose invention of dynamic random access memory — DRAM — in the late 1960s made possible personal computers, mobile phones, tablets and video game players ...

An Australian computer scientist who claims he invented bitcoin is not “Satoshi Nakamoto,” the pseudonymous inventor of the cryptocurrency, a judge at London’s High Court ruled on Thursday.

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 ...