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 ...

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 ...

Interesting Engineering. The Man Who Invented The Concept of Computers. Posted: May 23, 2025 | Last updated: May 23, 2025. Computers have become so integral to human life in such a short amount of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...