After all, IBM did invent the IBM PC. But there's a deeper observation embedded in his remarks. "We"—everyone who was there and participating at the time—invented the personal computer.

THE computer is the most versatile invention ever made, and most of us carry one around with us all the time. But who do we have to thank for creating the very first computer? Who invented the comp… ...

THE computer is the most versatile invention ever made, and most of us carry one around with us all the time. But who do we have to thank for creating the very first computer? Who invented the comp… ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley set out to remedy that oversight in her new book, The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer.

Tech bloggers are fuming over a comment by an IBM vice president taking credit for the invention of the personal computer. But who actually invented the PC anyway? Turns out it's more complicated ...

If someone up and asked you “who invented the computer,” how would you respond? Bill Gates? Steve Jobs? Al Gore? Or say you’re more historically savvy, might you venture Alan Turing? Perhaps ...

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 ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley turns her attention to a relatively unknown, yet historically important physics and mathematics professor in "The Man Who Invented the Computer: The ...