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

Computer scientist and electrical engineer Shwetak Patel in his University of Washington office. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop). Shwetak Patel has made a habit of pushing the ordinary stuff around us ...

Truly one of the greats. I'm amazed at the vision of computing that he shared with the rest of us in 1962, the year I was born. A true visionary. One thing this underscores for me is how young the ...

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 ...

Joseph Weizenbaum, a computer programmer who invented the natural-language-understanding program known as ELIZA and later grew skeptical of artificial intelligence, has died, his family said Thursday.

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a new computer keyboard that would allow for the additional connection of a wired USB mouse or other USB computer accessory," said an ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Russell Kirsch, a ...

Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak calls Engelbart a god and visionary. July 3, 2013 — -- Douglas C. Engelbart, one of the inventors of the computer mouse and a computer visionary, has died at the ...

Clive Sinclair, who invented the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, an early personal computer, died of cancer Thursday at age 81, his family confirmed. Sinclair was an inventor with an impressive list of ...