A century before the dawn of the computer age, Ada Lovelace imagined the modern-day, general-purpose computer. It could be programmed to follow instructions, she wrote in 1843. It could not just ...
It cost $18,000 when it was introduced in 1965, but it bridged the world between room-size mainframes and the modern desktop. By Glenn Rifkin C. Gordon Bell, a technology visionary whose computer ...
A designer for Apple, he created software that made it possible to display shapes, images and text on the screen and present a simulated “desktop.” By John Markoff Bill Atkinson, the Apple Computer ...
Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...
EXCLUSIVE: It was described by U.S. authorities as the “biggest military computer hack of all time,” and now the BBC is making a feature-length drama about the man behind the keyboard. The BBC has ...