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 ...

Here is the first known photograph of the great grandfather of modern digital computers – but you couldn’t use it on the train or take it jogging with you. The panoramic black and white image, which ...

The first modern electronic digital computer was called the Atanasoff–Berry computer, or ABC. It was built by physics Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, in 1942 ...

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, ...

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: ...