The iconoclastic inventor father of the home micro has died aged 81. I was probably the ideal customer for Clive Sinclair when he got started in the electronics business. He was keen to build a ...

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 ...

Adam Osborne, the man behind the first portable computer, has died. He sold tens of thousands of the Osborne-1, which at 23 pounds barely qualified as portable, and then jinxed himself by making a ...

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 ...

Doug Engelbart, the inventor of the computer mouse and developer of early incarnations of email, word processing programs and the Internet, has died at the age of 88. The Computer History Museum in ...

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there could be a soothing way to warm the hand when using a computer mouse," said an inventor, from McKinney, Texas, "so I invented the PROJECT ...

ITworld.com – David Geer recently spoke with Fred Cohen, an early and principal inventor of computer virus defense techniques, a widely sought information protection consultant, and author of 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.