His software brought printing into the digital age, allowing users to stop manually splicing columns of text and graphics and instead create layouts on a virtual pasteboard.

Notch never followed up his miracle creation. Neither did Tetris’ Alexey Pajitnov. How come only one of them could live with ...

Lynn Conway is remembered for her breakthroughs that helped shape modern computing and an advocate for the visibility of women in computer science. WEMU’s Ana Longoria has this story for Women’s ...

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

Beulah Louise Henry was just nine years old when she came up with her first invention in 1896, a device that allowed a man to ...

History has a strange habit of forgetting its own brilliance. Civilizations rose, fell, and took entire libraries of ...

An obituary of Tony Hoare, a pioneer and one of the greatest programmers in the early history of computing.

On November 21, 1916, pilot and inventor Lawrence Sperry was flying over Long Island’s Great South Bay with his student Dorothy Rice Pierce when his plane suddenly plunged into the water . Sperry ...

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...

Almost everyone has a PC or laptop of some kind, but in the future, you might not own one anymore. According to Jeff Bezos, the idea of personal computers may not last much longer. In his 2024 ...

For the past year, I kept bringing the same story to my editor: quantum computers are on the edge of becoming useful for scientific discovery. Of course, that has always been the goal. The idea of ...