Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley turns her attention to a relatively unknown, yet historically important physics and mathematics professor in "The Man Who Invented the Computer: The ...

OK, here's a wide open question that the Post-Bulletin's Answer Man is working on and could use some help answering. A reader wants to know who invented the computer? AM has limited scope of the ...

As it turns out, the man who invented the computer password back in the early 1960s agrees. In a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal, 87-year-old Fernando Corbato said that the password ...

The novelist Jane Smiley has written an interesting and informative book called The Man Who Invented the Computer, which is marred chiefly by its title. Smiley herself clearly has mixed feelings ...

Associated Press Man who invented ‘copy and paste’ at Xerox and later worked on the Macintosh at Apple dies at 74 Larry Tesler made ‘your workday easier thanks to his revolutionary ideas ...

45 thoughts on “ The Man Who Didn’t Invent The Personal Computer ” JWhitten says: May 23, 2016 at 10:45 am Cool ... I just programmed a computer.” Oh you invented something alright.

Apple didn't invent the portable computer. Neither did Toshiba. Or IBM. The first portable computer was created in April 1981 by a company called Osborne, led by a journalist turned entrepreneur ...

The story of how the computer on my desk got to me is one of the most peculiar tales of the twentieth century, and it demonstrates many tropes often considered merely literary -- peripeteia (a ...

Professor Kwabena Boahen, a professor of bioengineering and of electrical engineering admires the brain’s efficiency and elegance, and he’s dedicated his career to developing a computer that ...

No, This Man Invented The Internet M. Mitchell Waldrop, 11.27.00 ... In a 1960 article, "Man-Computer Symbiosis," he even laid out a technological road map for how to get there, ...

Australian computer scientist Craig Wright falsely claimed he invented bitcoin and has been sentenced for contempt of court on Thursday for his 911 billion-pound ($1.2 trillion USD) lawsuit ...