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

Victor Hayes gets the credit for inventing Wi-Fi, but like many inventions, more than one person is involved. This article explains the origins of Wi-Fi and describes the people and tech that made it ...

Steve Mann had a bold vision: One day we might wear computers on our heads. “Somebody’s got to explore the future,” he said. NBC’s Mike Leonard reports for TODAY back on Feb. 15, 1996.Aug. 11, 2023 ...

My first meeting with Bill Atkinson was unforgettable. It was November 1983, and reporting for Rolling Stone, I had gained access to the team building the Macintosh computer, scheduled to launch early ...

(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 ...

“It’s just like planning a dinner,” the renowned computer scientist Grace Hopper once quipped about computing in a 1967 issue of Cosmopolitan. “You have to plan ahead and schedule everything so it’s ...

Vic Hayes has been called the "Father of Wi-Fi," but there's an actor and composer involved, too Victor Hayes gets the credit for inventing Wi-Fi, but like many inventions, more than one person is ...

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