Frederick P. Brooks Jr., whose innovative work in computer design and software engineering helped shape the field of computer science, died Nov. 17 at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was ...

Long disparaged by the Baby Boomer generation as either a childish distraction or a leading cause for the downfall of civilization, video games have weathered that criticism and grown into the ...

Computer engineering jobs combine computer science and engineering fundamentals in business, IT, and academic environments. If you're thinking about earning a degree to enter the field, identifying ...

In the late 1980s, Burton Smith vowed to build the world’s fastest computer. By the time his Tera MTA machine surfaced nearly a decade later, though, computer technology and customer preferences had ...

George Morrow, who helped create the personal computer industry in the 1970s, has died. He was 69. Morrow died at his home in San Mateo, Calif., on Wednesday. For the last year, he suffered from ...

Charles Babbage is renowned worldwide as the designer of the first programmable mechanical computer, in 1834. Babbage’s “Analytical Engine” was designed to solve any equation by simply cranking a ...

Apparel seller Stitch Fix recently introduced a coral, sleeveless blouse with a split neckline—and an unusual creative provenance. It was one of three new tops designed with the help of artificial ...

Frederick P. Brooks Jr., whose innovative work in computer design and software engineering helped shape the field of computer science, died Nov. 17 at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was ...

He was a lead designer of the computers that cemented IBM’s dominance for decades. He later wrote a book on software engineering that became a quirky classic. By Steve Lohr Frederick P. Brooks Jr., ...