Thomas E. Kurtz, who translated the exhilarating power of computer science in the 1960s as the coinventor of BASIC, a programming language that replaced inscrutable numbers and glyphs with intuitive ...

Technological history may not repeat, but it occasionally rhymes. Last September, ChatGPT, the popular generative A.I. program made by OpenAI, released a voice mode that allowed users to talk to the ...

Inventor Mark Howe, who has been banned from casinos since the 1990’s, claims that his roulette computer can give you an advantage of 20% to 100% over a casino. The result is that the house’s normal 2 ...

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a wireless, non-invasive brain-computer interface to facilitate direct communication between the human brain and external devices without ...

PITTSBURGH, April 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a visually interesting computer for teaching religious education to young children," said an inventor, from Athens, Ala., "so I invented ...

If you've ever wanted a pair of gloves associated with one of the great leaps in computer technology, now's the time. Prototype typing gloves developed by Douglas Engelbart and Valerie Landau to ...

The inventor of the computer mouse Doug Engelbart has died at the age of 88. Engelbart created the device in the 1960s as a wooden shell with two metal wheels, and patented it many years before it ...

Douglas Engelbart, a Silicon Valley engineer who invented the computer mouse and is credited with many of the concepts that underpin modern computing and the Internet, died on Tuesday at his home in ...

And a remembrance, now. The, a computer visionary best known for inventing the mouse has died. As NPR's Laura Sydell reports, the mouse was just one small piece of what Douglas Engelbart contributed ...

DOUG Engelbart, the inventor of the computer mouse and developer of early incarnations of email and the Internet, has died at the age of 88. The Computer History Museum, where Engelbart had been a ...