The computer has traditionally been a woman. Before the invention of the electronic computer, the word “computer” meant a female worker who was part of a team with many other workers doing hundreds of ...
Fran Allen, the daughter of a dairy farmer who became a math teacher and longtime technology researcher at IBM, on Wednesday became the first woman to receive the prestigious A.M. Turing Award in ...
On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor. John Bardeen, ...