Computing pioneers get historical nod
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Spreadsheet pioneer Dan Bricklin is among the computing innovators honored by the Computer History Museum.
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By Troy WolvertonSTAFF  CARLSBAD -- In a historic joint public appearance Wednes-   day, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs talked about their shared history and gave their views on what's ahead for the technology industry in an appearance that was low on fireworks and heavy with nostalgia.
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Machines that only a few years ago seemed to be the stuff of fantasy are slowly but surely reaching the mainstream.  Photos: IBM's Blue Gene/L  Photos: Barcelona's big blade
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Bob Evans, an IBM computer scientist who helped to develop the modern mainframe computer, died Thursday. He was 77. Evans died of heart failure at his at his home in the San Francisco suburb of Hillsborough, his son Evan told the Associated Press.
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Analog box in disguise? Few start-ups would have the guts or audacity to unveil their first product at the Computer History Museum. D-Wave Systems, however, did just that today by unveiling the world's most advanced quantum computer - a product that may one day be displayed at the museum as a breakthrough system or simply as a curious relic.â¦
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Here's a look at the evolution of software coding from the early days of wires and physical switches to the untimely death of "automatic programming."
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The popular technology promises to make computing easier, but it takes time to get up to speed.
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The blueprint for a tiny ultra rugged mechanical computer has been inspired by ideas put forward 200 years ago.
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The National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation today announced it will induct two IBM (NYSE: IBM) inventors who developed the first commercial hard-disk drive system, which revolutionized the computer industry more than a half century ago.
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At a ceremony in Washington, the Smithsonian Institution honored the first handheld electronic calculator, which was developed by a team at Texas Instruments.
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We at PC World have seen technology history--lots and lots of it. And maybe even made a little of it ourselves.
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Ten years ago, Donald Becker and Thomas Sterling built a 16-node cluster, the original Beowulf, and started Linux and commodity hardware on a program of relentless improvement.
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By Richard Orange, The Business, London  Feb. 24--It is more than 40 years since Gordon E. Moore, the co-founder  of Intel, first observed that the number of transistors that could be crammed  onto a computer chip doubles roughly every two years.
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Science & environment: Billionaire businessman pays tribute to computing industry ahead of his Microsoft exit
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One of the designers of the classic BBC Micro computer is recognised in the New Year Honours list.
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In all, Microsoft built more than 85 early prototypes for a tabletop computer. Here are two of them.
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COLLEGE PARK, Md., June 25  /PRNewswire/ -- A prototype of what may be the next generation of personal computers has been developed by researchers in the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering.