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 ...

At the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, the exhibits chart how technology got to where it is today. And there could be no better guide to this history than Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple ...

DOUG Engelbart, the inventor of the computer mouse and developer of early incarnations of email and the Internet, has died at the age of 88. The Computer History Museum, where Engelbart had been a ...

Technological history may not repeat, but it occasionally rhymes. Last September, ChatGPT, the popular generative A.I. program made by OpenAI, released a voice mode that allowed users to talk to the ...

Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak calls Engelbart a god and visionary. July 3, 2013 — -- Douglas C. Engelbart, one of the inventors of the computer mouse and a computer visionary, has died at the ...

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a wireless, non-invasive brain-computer interface to facilitate direct communication between the human brain and external devices without ...

PITTSBURGH, April 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a visually interesting computer for teaching religious education to young children," said an inventor, from Athens, Ala., "so I invented ...

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a new computer keyboard that would allow for the additional connection of a wired USB mouse or other USB computer accessory," said an ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Doug Engelbart, a visionary who invented the computer mouse and developed other technology that has transformed the way people work, play and communicate, died late Tuesday. He was 88.

The man who invented the computer mouse, revolutionising the way people work, play and communicate, has died at 88. Doug Engelbart died from acute kidney failure at his California home after a long ...