The first electronic computer was built during the 1940s by John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics at Iowa State University, and one of his students, Clifford E. Berry. But the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kai James, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) Imagine you’re a copper ...

Larry Tesler, the Silicon Valley pioneer who created the now-ubiquitous computer concepts such as “cut,” “copy” and “paste,” has died. He was 74. He made using computers easier for generations as a ...

U.S. inventor Douglas Engelbart was one of the visionaries of the computer age. Besides inventing the computer mouse, his insight laid the... Douglas Engelbart Dies At 88, Invented Computer Mouse ...