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 ...

The abacus, a simple counting aid, may have been invented in Babylonia (now Iraq ... Babbage's next idea is the Analytical Engine - a mechanical computer that can solve any mathematical problem.

Set in the heart of Silicon Valley, the Computer History Museum long cheered the developments around it. Now, it’s taking a ...

A single IMP connected to one computer wasn’t much of a network. So it was very exciting in September 1969 when IMP-1 was ...

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 ...

a director of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. He worked alongside English and many other computing pioneers in the 1970s. William Kirk English was born on Jan 27 ...