The Man Who Invented AGI

Everyone is obsessed with artificial general intelligence—the stage when AI can match all feats of human cognition. The guy ...
Texarkana Gazette

Bill Atkinson, who made computers easier to use, dies at 74

Bill Atkinson, an Apple Computer designer who created the software that enabled the transformative visual approach pioneered by the company's Lisa and Macintosh computers, making the machines ...
Computerworld

When women were women, and computers were women

This week is the 60th anniversary of ENIAC — the first all-electronic machine that would eventually take the name of its programmers: computers. It was an engineering feat, but it was also a ...
Ars Technica

Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85

On Thursday, Internet pioneer Vint Cerf announced that Dr. David L. Mills, the inventor of Network Time Protocol (NTP), died peacefully at age 85 on January 17, 2024. The announcement came in a post ...