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 breakthroughs in ...

German engineer and inventor Konrad Zuse is considered as the inventor of the modern computer but was frustrated in his ...

For decades computer scientists have struggled to program machines that can understand natural language. IBM, for example, had to teach Watson how humans speak in order to beat Ken Jennings at ...

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 ...

"The Computers" is about a group of forgotten pioneers. If you managed to attend the showing of “CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap” this summer (and especially if you didn’t), there’s still lots more to ...

Imagine you’re a copper miner in southeastern Europe in the year 3900 BCE. Day after day, you haul copper ore through the mine’s sweltering tunnels. You’ve resigned yourself to the grueling monotony ...