March is going out with a roar at Rock Island Public Library, with a wide selection of events for teens and adults from March ...

Notch never followed up his miracle creation. Neither did Tetris’ Alexey Pajitnov. How come only one of them could live with ...

Had they included just one of Tony Hoare’s achievements, many scientific careers would be considered prestigious enough. His had a long list, unfortunately closed by his passing away at the age of 92 ...

Obit Professor Charles Anthony Richard Hoare has died at the age of 92. Known to many computer science students as C. A. R. Hoare, and to his friends as Tony, he was not only one of the greatest minds ...

With Apple’s 50th anniversary fast approaching, the Computer History Museum is planning a series of programs and a temporary exhibit to celebrate the company’s history. Here are the details. The ...

Black history is fundamentally a part of Chicago history. In recent years, the City of Chicago and its cultural institutions have made gradual efforts to spotlight how Black history has shaped our ...

Chicago Bears will celebrate Black History Month by honoring the history, leadership and enduring contributions of Black individuals and communities whose influence has shaped the organization, the ...

Programming began as a way to give simple instructions to machines that barely worked. Over decades, it evolved through punch cards, assembly language, and high-level code into something that now runs ...

As the calendar turns to February, many museums and cultural centers across the country are readying their programming for Black History Month. At the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, ...

The Computer History Museum, based in Mountain View, California, looks like a fine way to spend an afternoon for anyone interested in, well, the history of computers. And if that description fits you ...

When Basic Books Group president and publisher Lara Heimert told her mom that she was going to work at the Hachette division's flagship imprint, back in 2005, she was elated. "My mother said, Oh, they ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. At this point, computers have gone well beyond their initial mandate of, as the name suggests, computing. They're doors to virtual worlds, a ...