He was told not to use the word "computers" in his first meeting with venture capitalists because a Fortune article said computers weren't making any money. Kenneth H. Olsen, founder of Digital ...

Kenneth Olsen, who died at 84 on Sunday, was a natural disruptor in the early days of computing. At Digital Equipment Corp., Olsen’s minicomputers undercut the costs of IBM’s mainframe computers and ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the early 1980s, Digital Equipment ...

Two Gordons loom large in the history of computing, and both made observations about the interplay of economics and technology and how they foster progress, which have both been enshrined as laws. We ...

At age 76, Gordon Bell is planning for the future. He’s interested in cloud computing and, as someone who sat on the National Science Foundation (NSF) committee that proposed the Internet, he’s now ...