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On 1982, "Time" magazine named the personal computer its "Machine of the Year." The news devastated Steve Jobs.
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U.S. inventor Douglas Engelbart was one of the visionaries of the computer age. Besides inventing the computer mouse, his insight laid the... Douglas Engelbart Dies At 88, Invented Computer Mouse ...
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At just 13 years old, Kevin Tang is establishing himself in the world of science and senior care − all with the goal of keeping his grandma safe. Kevin's device isn't wearable. Instead, users set up ...
In the candle-lit world of Victorian England, one woman looked beyond steam engines and gears — and saw the future of machines that could think. Ada Lovelace, daughter of poet Lord Byron, worked with ...
On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor. John Bardeen, ...
Tim Berners-Lee may have the smallest fame-to-impact ratio of anyone living. Strangers hardly ever recognize his face; on “Jeopardy!,” his name usually goes for at least sixteen hundred dollars.