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 ...

One of the most striking aspects of this week’s launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket is the number of engines the triple-core booster used to reach orbit. Each of the cores had nine Merlin rocket engines ...

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, ...

The simple question of who invented the digital computer has many possible answers. Several strands of development – both theoretical and practical – converged around 1950, and no single inventor can ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...