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U.S. inventor Doug Engelbart, the man known as the father of the computer mouse and a thinker who helped introduce other key innovations, died Wednesday morning at age 88. His death was announced ...
My first meeting with Bill Atkinson was unforgettable. It was November 1983, and reporting for Rolling Stone, I had gained ...
1941: German inventor and engineer Konrad Zuse completes his Z3 machine, the world's earliest digital computer, according to Gerard O'Regan's book "A Brief History of Computing" (Springer ...
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 ...
As Dr. Kurtz once told the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California: “Lecturing about computing doesn’t make any sense, any more than lecturing on how to drive a car makes sense.” ...
the director of curatorial affairs at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., said in a phone interview. “That’s where he was really instrumental.” Image Dr. Warnock ...