The importance of computers in getting Neil Armstrong and his colleagues to the Moon and back to Earth cannot be underestimated. But the sort of technology available to Nasa in the early 1960s was ...

Firewalls, both hardware and software, protect computers from hackers and other online threats by blocking dangerous pieces of data from reaching the system. While hardware firewalls offer ...

Hewlett-Packard's new software effort has just one problem: Despite the company's strong history of innovation in hardware, its software success has been nominal, at best. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

The creation of computer graphics has evolved dramatically as computers have become commonplace in homes around the world. Computers today are more powerful, smaller and quieter than those in the past ...

One of the few women in the computer industry in its early days, she paved the way for the efficient, lightning-fast apps of today. By Cade Metz Frances Allen, a computer scientist and researcher who ...