Kenneth Olsen, a computer industry pioneer and co-founder of Digital Equipment Corp., has died. He was 84. His death Sunday was announced by Gordon College in Wenham, Mass., where he was a trustee and ...

Andrew Kay, an early San Diego technology entrepreneur who founded Kaypro Corp. computers in the early 1980s, died last week in North County. He was 95. A relentlessly curious learner and inventor, ...

Prof. Gerald (Jerry) Estrin, a computer pioneer in the United States and Israel who built the first computer in the Middle East, has died. Estrin died March 29 at his home in Santa Monica, California ...

Jack Tramiel, a pioneer in the computing industry and founder of Commodore, died on Sunday at age 83, his son Leonard Tramiel confirmed Monday. Tramiel’s Commodore International in 1982 released the ...

BOSTON—In the 1970s, in the early days of computers, before there were microchips, the principal technology at the heart of a computer's memory was "magnetic core memory," whose main component was the ...

Augustus De Morgan, born on June 27, 1806, was a pioneering British mathematician and logician whose contributions laid the foundation for modern symbolic logic and algebra. His legacy continues to ...

Computer pioneer Ken Olsen has died at the age of 84. Olsen co-founded Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1957. It anchored the Massachusetts computer industry for decades. After serving in World ...