Bill Atkinson, an Apple Computer designer who created the software that enabled the transformative visual approach pioneered by the company's Lisa and Macintosh computers, making the machines ...
This week is the 60th anniversary of ENIAC — the first all-electronic machine that would eventually take the name of its programmers: computers. It was an engineering feat, but it was also a ...
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 about ...