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 ...

"The Computers" is about a group of forgotten pioneers. If you managed to attend the showing of “CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap” this summer (and especially if you didn’t), there’s still lots more to ...

Imagine you’re a copper miner in southeastern Europe in the year 3900 BCE. Day after day, you haul copper ore through the mine’s sweltering tunnels. You’ve resigned yourself to the grueling monotony ...

Larry Tesler, the Silicon Valley pioneer who created the now-ubiquitous computer concepts such as “cut,” “copy” and “paste,” has died. He was 74. He made using computers easier for generations as a ...

John Atanasoff, an Iowa State University professor, is credited with coming up with plans for the first electronic computer in 1937 at a "Rock Island roadhouse." Atanasoff died in 1995, and never ...

Tech bloggers are fuming over a comment by an IBM vice president taking credit for the invention of the personal computer. But who actually invented the PC anyway? Turns out it's more complicated than ...