“It’s just like planning a dinner,” the renowned computer scientist Grace Hopper once quipped about computing in a 1967 issue of Cosmopolitan. “You have to plan ahead and schedule everything so it’s ...

Mark Wilson, “Untitled Gray Ground & Untitled Light Gray Ground” (1973) (click to enlarge) Personal computing may have begun in the 1980s but the history of computer art started much earlier during a ...

Photographer John Short captured some of the most influential designs in the early history of personal computing for a new book, “Home Computers: 100 Icons that Defined a Digital Generation.” ...

Arthur W. Burks, a member of the team that designed the Eniac computer, a frequent collaborator of John von Neumann and a pioneer in computing education, died Wednesday at a nursing home in Ann Arbor, ...

Apple filed a patent application for a desktop computer that’s also a keyboard. If that seems familiar, it’s the design used by some of the first personal computers back in the 1900s. Because even old ...