My first meeting with Bill Atkinson was unforgettable. It was November 1983, and reporting for Rolling Stone, I had gained ...

U.S. inventor 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 announced ...

As Dr. Kurtz once told the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California: “Lecturing about computing doesn’t make any sense, any more than lecturing on how to drive a car makes sense.” ...

Computer history is not only a history of machines but also of politics, culture, language—and human work. Julia Ravanis' ...

It was only when I became a technology writer some years later that I realized that my landlord had invented the computer. In the early 1940s John Presper “Pres” Eckert Jr. was a grad student ...

IBM invented the hard disk drive. The first hard disk drive shipped in 1956 with the IBM 305 RAMAC(Opens in a new window) computer. The computer itself was vast -- about 30 feet by 50 feet (9m x ...

Technological history may not repeat ... a famous early chatbot released in 1966 by MIT computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum. Weizenbaum named his chat program after Pygmalion’s Eliza Doolittle ...

He was 88. 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 ...

Doug Engelbart, the inventor of the computer mouse and developer of early incarnations of email, word processing programs and the Internet, has died at the age of 88. The Computer History Museum ...