A pair of pioneering computer scientists — who met at Princeton University and forged their friendship at the legendary Bell Labs in New Jersey — were named the winners of the equivalent of the Nobel ...

Computer-assisted study of folklore and literature was initiated shortly after World War II by Roberto Busa, S.J., who began preparing a concordance to the works of Thomas Aquinas in 1948, and ...

After meeting Alan Turing, Mr. Brooker went to work at the University of Manchester and wrote the programming language for the first commercial computer. By Cade Metz Tony Brooker, the mathematician ...

The Java programming language emerged roughly 25 years ago, when Smalltalk and C++ dominated. Back then it was easy to argue that the world didn't need another object-oriented programming language.

In 1979, two M.I.T. computer-science alumni and a Harvard Business School graduate launched a new piece of computer software for the Apple II machine, an early home computer. Called VisiCalc, short ...

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Government-funded academic research on parallel computing, stream processing, real-time shading languages, and programmable ...

The history of computer science, the internet, and the modern software industry is populated by a cast of characters that is largely White, middle-aged men. Leafing through Walter Isaacson’s excellent ...