Thomas E. Kurtz, who translated the exhilarating power of computer science in the 1960s as the coinventor of BASIC, a programming language that replaced inscrutable numbers and glyphs with intuitive ...

David Monroe helped create some of the earliest computer technologies that led to innovations like the cell phone camera.

If you've ever wanted a pair of gloves associated with one of the great leaps in computer technology, now's the time. Prototype typing gloves developed by Douglas Engelbart and Valerie Landau to ...

Douglas Engelbart, a Silicon Valley engineer who invented the computer mouse and is credited with many of the concepts that underpin modern computing and the Internet, died on Tuesday at his home in ...

PITTSBURGH, April 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a visually interesting computer for teaching religious education to young children," said an inventor, from Athens, Ala., "so I invented ...

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a wireless, non-invasive brain-computer interface to facilitate direct communication between the human brain and external devices without ...

The inventor of the computer mouse Doug Engelbart has died at the age of 88. Engelbart created the device in the 1960s as a wooden shell with two metal wheels, and patented it many years before it ...

A computer that uses light rather than digital switches for calculations could help reduce the energy demands of artificial intelligence (AI), according to a new study. The scientists who invented the ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Doug Engelbart, a visionary who invented the computer mouse and developed other technology that has transformed the way people work, play and communicate, died late Tuesday. He was 88.