Invented by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, BASIC was first successfully ...

Women were encouraged to seek employment in computing by appealing to traditional domestic roles Alana Staiti In 1967, the magazine Cosmopolitan featured an article about the growing number of job ...

Tony Brooker, the mathematician and computer scientist who designed the programming language for the world’s first commercial computer, died Nov. 20 at a nursing home in Hexham, England. He was 94.

For pioneering computer scientist Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautiful expression. Donald Knuth is a computer scientist who came of age with his field. During the nascent years of ...

After meeting Alan Turing, Mr. Brooker went to work at the University of Manchester and wrote the programming language for the first commercial computer. By Cade Metz Tony Brooker, the mathematician ...