It was only when I became a technology writer some years later that I realized that my landlord had invented the computer. In the early 1940s John Presper “Pres” Eckert Jr. was a grad student ...

Bill Gates and Paul Allen form Traf-O-Data in 1971 to sell their computer traffic-analysis systems. 1972: Gary Kildall writes PL/M, the first high-level programming language for the Intel ...

With its wide-ranging family of hardware, Microsoft has reimagined how we compute—again and again. As the company turns 50, let's revisit the twists and turns of its transformative Surface line.

He pioneers the use of binary math and boolean logic in electronic calculation. Colossus, a British computer used for code-breaking, is operational by December of 1943. ENIAC, or Electronic ...

Computer-assisted study of folklore and literature was initiated ... but the programming problems were insurmountable and no "integrated" bibliography was ever produced. The history of that project ...

(The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA) The home of the largest collection of computer artifacts in the world, which includes thousands of hardware components, images, films and videos.