John Blankenbaker opened the door wearing perfectly pleated slacks and a deep red sweater, shoes polished, his hair trimmed into a buzz cut. The Navy veteran’s home in suburban Pennsylvania is just as ...

Gerald (Jerry) Estrin, a computer pioneer in the United States and Israel who built the first computer in the Middle East, has died. Estrin died March 29 at his home in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 90.

Harry Huskey with the Bendix G15, the first “personal computer.” Harry Huskey, a pioneering computer scientist who worked on early computing systems and later helped universities around the world ...

It's fitting that we pay tribute to Adam Osborne, a visionary who in 1981 set the PC world on fire with a 21 pound "portable" computer. His company took off like wild fire, only to crash in ...

It took computing historians until the late 1970s to recognize Victorian-era mathematician Ada Lovelace — once best known as the daughter of poet Lord Byron — as the world’s first computer programmer.

Computer industry pioneer Max Palevsky, who helped finance several important high tech firms including Intel, died Wednesday at age 85. In recent years he turned against the high tech world, refusing ...