It took careful work to recover the UNIX V4 operating system from the 9-track magnetic tape. The software is foundational for ...

Stewart Cheifet, the television producer and host who documented the personal computer revolution for nearly two decades on ...

Computer-generated voices have replicated the calm, smooth manner in which broadcasters are trained to speak, adding to ...

U.S. inventor Douglas Engelbart was one of the visionaries of the computer age. Besides inventing the computer mouse, his insight laid the... Douglas Engelbart Dies At 88, Invented Computer Mouse ...

AI wasn't created by one person, instead, it evolved over decades. British mathematician Alan Turing shaped the idea of AI by asking "Can machines think?" and proposing the Turing test. In 1956, at ...

Containers move fast. They're created and removed in seconds, but the vulnerabilities they introduce can stick around. Learn 5 core practices to help engineering and security teams manage container ...

Dave Plummer was once a programmer for Microsoft, where he played a key role in the development of the Windows Task Manager as well as the ZIP archive import for the operating system. The man has ...

In the summer of 1956, a group of academics—now we’d call them computer scientists but there was no such thing then—met on Dartmouth College campus in New Hampshire to discuss how to make machines ...

University of Tennessee provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. When people name the most important inventions in history, light bulbs are usually on the list. They were much safer than ...

Tim Berners-Lee may have the smallest fame-to-impact ratio of anyone living. Strangers hardly ever recognize his face; on “Jeopardy!,” his name usually goes for at least sixteen hundred dollars.

The 14th Computer Weekly list of the 50 Most Influential Women in UK Technology is now open for voting, giving readers an opportunity to express who they feel deserves the top spot. Launched in 2012, ...