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 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 ...

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, ...

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: ...

A CIS major covers many disciplines and applications, and uses the computer as a powerful problem-solving machine.

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 ...