The first electronic computer was built during the 1940s by John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics at Iowa State University, and one of his students, Clifford E. Berry. But the ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - 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 ...

Douglas Engelbart, a Silicon Valley engineer who invented the computer mouse and is credited with many of the concepts that underpin modern computing and the Internet, died on Tuesday at his home in ...

Following last week’s fantastic Apple@50 panel, the Computer History Museum has announced “TechFest: Happy Birthday, Apple,” to be held on March 28.

Mar. 14—Silicon Valley history buffs know Ronald Wayne's story well. He worked with Steve Jobs at Atari and when the agreement was signed to create Apple Computer on April 1, 1976 — 50 years ago next ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, who translated the exhilarating power of computer science in the 1960s as the coinventor of BASIC, a programming language that replaced inscrutable numbers and glyphs with intuitive ...

ITworld.com – David Geer recently spoke with Fred Cohen, an early and principal inventor of computer virus defense techniques, a widely sought information protection consultant, and author of the ...

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a more comfortable and ergonomic way to utilize a computer for extended periods of time," said an inventor, from Los Alamitos, Calif., "so ...