Douglas Engelbart --the father of the computer mouse and so many of the other basic concepts that drive our personal machines and the modern internet -- has died at the age of 88. According to an ...

A physics whiz and a chief trailblazer of mainframe computing, Gene Amdahl went from a Depression-era childhood on a South Dakota farm to become one of the first rock stars of tech in Silicon Valley, ...

Ritchie created the C programming language and used it to create the operating system Unix. Both developments underpin modern computing, experts say. Flickr/mrbill Dennis Ritchie, whose invention of ...

Fifty years ago, the word “computer” had a very different meaning. Prior to World War II, the word referred not to machines, but to people (mostly women in order to save costs) hired as human ...

Sixty-five years ago today, the first newspaper accounts of the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer hit newsstands. From the Feb. 15, 1946 New York Times, a page one headline reads: ...

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