Computing pioneer Evelyn Berezin died at 93 this week. She was most known as the designer of the first true word-processing computer. But she designed many other innovative computing systems and ...

Too many of the early pioneers are sadly leaving us. RIP Evelyn. Unfortunately too many are not well known, especially the women pioneers. I did not who actually developed the first word processor and ...

WHAT is a word? The question might seem easy. One answer is that the list of all words in a language can be found in a dictionary. A second, commonsense definition, might be that everything that ...

Once upon a time, and it wasn't that long ago, instead of word processors like today's favorites such as Microsoft Word, Google Docs or OpenOffice and its brother LibreOffice, we had to use ...

Similar to previous overseas studies, teachers in our study spent significantly more time teaching paper-based writing than ...

It works on most major OS platforms and supports many languages; it’s able to read and write most documents in Microsoft Word’s .doc format, as well as twenty others; its authors claim it can do most ...

The literary history of the early years of word processing—the late 1960s through the mid-’80s—forms the subject of Matthew G. Kirschenbaum’s new book, Track Changes. The year 1984 was a key moment ...

We're going to take a moment now to remember a pioneer of computer engineering. Evelyn Berezin died over the weekend at age 93. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: She was the daughter of a seamstress and furrier, ...

Many Windows-based computers come with a version of Microsoft Word, the widely used word processing software. More often then not, however, Apple computer's do not come with any version of Word.

In the past, most small-business owners got by with a typewriter, handwritten notes and a basic text-editor program, but modern-day business professionals depend on a word processor. Whether you're ...