This week’s milestones in tech history include Yahoo going public, the founding of MIT, the greatest invention of the 19th century, the birth of computer programming as a profession and of ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — In a move that recognizes deep changes underway in the construction of computer software, Purdue University’s Office of the Executive Vice President for Research and ...

April 11, 1936. German civil engineer and early computer pioneer Konrad Zuse files for a patent on the automatic execution of calculations, a process that will become central to the Z-1, Germany ...