Imagine you’re a copper miner in southeastern Europe in the year 3900 BCE. Day after day, you haul copper ore through the mine’s sweltering tunnels. You’ve resigned yourself to the grueling monotony ...

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And a remembrance, now. The, a computer visionary best known for inventing the mouse has died. As NPR's Laura Sydell reports, the mouse was just one small piece of what Douglas Engelbart contributed ...

Douglas Engelbart, a Silicon Valley engineer who invented the computer mouse and is credited with many of the concepts that underpin modern computing and the Internet, died on Tuesday at his home in ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, who translated the exhilarating power of computer science in the 1960s as the coinventor of BASIC, a programming language that replaced inscrutable numbers and glyphs with intuitive ...

Stephen Wilhite was merely trying to solve a technical problem when he invented the GIF, or graphics interchange format, in 1987. As a programmer at the computer-services firm CompuServe, he was ...

Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak calls Engelbart a god and visionary. July 3, 2013 — -- Douglas C. Engelbart, one of the inventors of the computer mouse and a computer visionary, has died at the ...