The hunt for Bitcoin’s elusive inventor has become a mythical quest, akin to discovering Atlantis or finding Bigfoot. “Satoshi”, who receives the same first-name treatment as Oprah and Beyoncé among ...

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 ...

Robert Dennard, an engineer at IBM whose invention of dynamic random access memory — DRAM — in the late 1960s made possible personal computers, mobile phones, tablets and video game players, has died.

The history of computers began with primitive designs in the early 19th century and went on to change the world during the 20th century.