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 ...

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 ...

The Man Who Invented the Computer by Jane Smiley. Smiley casts a spotlight on John Atanasoff, a little-known physics professor at Iowa State who devised the world’s first digital computer.

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 ...

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 ...

From “The Man Who Invented The Computer” (Iowa State University Library) By Kathryn Schulz. Nov. 26, 2010; See how this article appeared when it was originally published on NYTimes.com.

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 ...