Home computing pioneer honoured
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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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The father of actor Ron Howard is honoured with a lifetime achievement award.
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Science & environment: Billionaire businessman pays tribute to computing industry ahead of his Microsoft exit
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A phonics champion and university academics feature prominently in the Queen's Birthday Honours.
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A look at the life the Microsoft co-founder before the internet revolution
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InfoWorld - The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded the A.M. Turing Award to Frances Allen, a computer scientist at IBM and the first woman to receive the prestigious prize.
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Five years after becoming Microsoft's chief software architect, he can finally be judged on a record, CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says.
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The world's most prolific inventor, whose contributions in the area of power, light and sound changed the world forever, is born.
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(InfoWorld) - The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded the A.M. Turing Award to Frances Allen, a computer scientist at IBM and the first woman to receive the prestigious prize. Allen, a fellow emerita at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, was given the award for her contributions in the area of program optimization, a way of modifying a program to run more efficiently and improve performance. The award is named after the British mathematician A.M. Turing and includes a $100,000 prize. In particular, ACM cited Allen's work in automatic program parallelization, which allows programs to use multiple processors to improve speed. The group said her efforts "contributed to advances in the use of high performance computers for solving problems such as weather forecasting, DNA matching, and national security functions." The group will present the award to Allen at a ceremony in June.
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By Jim Stafford, The Daily Oklahoman  Feb. 13--Seated in front of a monitor in a classroom at Francis Tuttle Technology Center, 84-year-old Fred Edmonds studies a spiral-bound notebook as an instructor explains the basics of computer technology.
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Ken Kennedy, a professor who founded the computer science department at Rice University in 1984 and eventually became one of the world's pioneers in parallel and distributed computing, died last week at 61. Computerworld's Gary Anthes remembers Kennedy.
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The founder of Seagate Technologies died on Tuesday following complications from heart surgery.
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Chuck Thacker, who helped design the Alto personal computer and co-invented Ethernet, takes stock of a life on the front lines of computer invention.
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The computer appears to be well on its way toward total entertainment domination in the home.
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AlarmPoint Systems announced today that it received an HP Software 2006  Achiever's Award at a ceremony held last  evening during the HP Software Universe 2006 conference in Vienna.
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Tim Berners-Lee, widely seen as the inventor of the World Wide Web, was an Innovation Hall of Fame Honoree and keynote speaker at the What's Next Forum & Technology Awards presented by MITX.
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Al Shugart, a pioneer in the computer disk drive industry and one of Silicon Valley's most colorful entrepreneurs, has died. He was 76.