Kennedy in 1961. At the MIT Instrumentation Lab where Hamilton worked, she and her colleagues were inventing core ideas in computer programming as they wrote the code for the world’s first ...

Here’s how it works. Before modern devices such as laptops and mobile phones were invented, a "computer" was a person who did calculations. At the Harvard College Observatory, between the late ...

long before most of the technologies necessary to build it were even invented. That design was the Dynabook, and its author was computer scientist Alan Kay. Its intended audience was children.

But who invented it ... a time-sharing network of computers known as ARPANET, the precursor to today's Internet. In October 1969, the first ARPANET communications were sent between Kleinrock's ...