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 ...

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 ...

Triodes were integral components of phone networks prior to the invention of the transistor ... which would form the basis ...

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 ...

The inventor of the computer mouse Doug Engelbart has died at the age of 88. Engelbart created the device in the 1960s as a wooden shell with two metal wheels, and patented it many years before it ...

If you've ever wanted a pair of gloves associated with one of the great leaps in computer technology, now's the time. Prototype typing gloves developed by Douglas Engelbart and Valerie Landau to ...