This may have been the first machine to use binary code, but the binary system was invented by someone called Pingala in 300BC. ENIC (Electronic, Numerical, Integrator and Computer) was another ...

If the answer’s ultimately “yes, he could have,” it could challenge the prevailing academic belief that Alan Turing, not Babbage, designed the first general purpose computer.

And who invented the Internet? Al Gore is the incorrect response. The answers aren’t simple. Isaacson takes 542 pages in his new book, “The Innovators,” to address them, marking ...

And to do so, the company has released a video lecture of its history that contains at least one very contestable assertion—that IBM gets credit for the personal computer.

SAN FRANCISCO — 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.

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 c… ...