The novelist Jane Smiley has written an interesting and informative book called The Man Who Invented the Computer, which is marred chiefly by its title. Smiley herself clearly has mixed feelings about ...

Joan Shogren graduated with her degree in chemistry from California’s San José State University (SJSU) in the early 1950s, and began working as a secretary in the department. It was there that she ...

Joshua Schulte, 35, who transmitted classified information to WikiLeaks, also faced child pornography charges. Before his sentencing, he complained about his treatment in jail. By Colin Moynihan ...

Abraham Rubio has wanted to be a software engineer since childhood. On the gaming platform Minecraft, he loved tinkering with “mods,” or alterations to video games created by fans that change elements ...

Stewart Cheifet, the television producer and host who documented the personal computer revolution for nearly two decades on PBS, died on December 28, 2025, at age 87 in Philadelphia. Cheifet created ...

Dr. Weatherby is the director of the Digital Theory Lab at New York University. ChatGPT was released two and a half years ago, and we have been in a public panic ever since. Artificial intelligence ...

Diego Gutiérrez has turned his laboratory at the University of Zaragoza into a hub of innovation in computational imaging. He has collaborated with Disney and NASA, with whom he worked on a project to ...