"The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer" by Jane Smiley, Doubleday, 204 pages, $25.95 What did you do on your computer today? Maybe you answered some ...

German engineer and inventor Konrad Zuse is considered as the inventor of the modern computer but was frustrated in his ...

A new type of computer memory to solve the digital technology energy crisis has been invented and patented by scientists. The device is the realization of the decades long search for a 'Universal ...

The first mechanical computer is an Analytical Engine, which was designed by Charles Babbage, the Father of the Computer. Computers have transformed over the years as massive machines developed into ...

The New Hampshire Department of Transportation has installed a historical marker near the Hanover town line on Route 120 to mark the invention of the BASIC computer language at Dartmouth College in ...

David Leavitt, acclaimed gay novelist, essayist, biographer and short story writer, discusses his book The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer, recorded in the KPFA ...

Try this free-association exercise. When you hear the word inventor , what names pop into your head? Chances are, you'll think of some long-dead genius from the 19th or early 20th century, such as ...

“While it is true that the software may be abstract, if it is considered to be a computer-implemented invention, it is bound to produce a technical effect, or as we call it in our guidelines, a ...

A new type of computer memory which could solve the digital technology energy crisis has been invented and patented by scientists from Lancaster University in the UK. The electronic memory device — ...