The novelist Jane Smiley has written an interesting and informative book called The Man Who Invented the Computer, which is marred chiefly by its title. Smiley herself clearly has mixed feelings about ...
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 Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kai James, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) Imagine you’re a copper ...
The world has lost another computer pioneer. Dennis Ritchie, the computer scientist who invented the C programming language and co-developped the Unix operating system, has died at the age of 70. Sign ...
Imagine you’re a copper miner in southeastern Europe in the year 3900 B.C.E. Day after day you haul copper ore through the mine’s sweltering tunnels. You’ve resigned yourself to the grueling monotony ...
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