The New York Times

Bill Atkinson, Who Made Computers Easier to Use, Is Dead at 74

A designer for Apple, he created software that made it possible to display shapes, images and text on the screen and present a simulated “desktop.” By John Markoff Bill Atkinson, the Apple Computer ...
The New York Times

Martin Karplus, Chemist Who Made Early Computers a Tool, Dies at 94

Proving skeptics wrong, he shared a Nobel Prize in 2013 for using computers to better understand chemical reactions and biological processes. By Dylan Loeb McClain Martin Karplus, a Nobel ...
Artnet

Who Were the Women Who Pioneered Early Computer Art?

“It’s just like planning a dinner,” the renowned computer scientist Grace Hopper once quipped about computing in a 1967 issue of Cosmopolitan. “You have to plan ahead and schedule everything so it’s ...
Northcountrypublicradio.org

Nobel Chemistry Prize Goes To Scientists Who Made Computer Models

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel Wednesday. Karplus, Levitt and Warshel won... Nobel Chemistry Prize Goes To Scientists Who Made ...
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Bring back the computer-advertising raccoons

I came to the U.S. in the early 2000s and was a technology journalist within the decade, so everything from before then I find packed with intrigue and mystery and, sometimes, bafflement. Today I ...