Computer passwords were a "way for users to hide away the files and programs they were working on from others on the same machine" and are widely credited to MIT's Fernando Corbato, said BBC.Today ...

The term ‘bugs in a computer’ had been used before, but after Grace Hopper wrote in her diary “first actual case of bug being found” the term became really popular, and that’s why we are ...

In the same year, Kemeny applied for a National Science Foundation grant to bring a GE-225 computer to Dartmouth and build the first fully functional general-purpose time-sharing system. Despite ...

Here’s the 50-year-old Microsoft source code that inspired the first Apple computer. To celebrate Microsoft's 50th anniversary, you can download a piece of PC history. By Roman Loyola.

Gillian Jacobs, known for her role as Britta Perry on Community, directed a short documentary on the computer programming pioneer. She says Hopper wasn't fond of the hype over her accomplishments.

The CHM has gained Apple's approval to release the source code for the Lisa as part of the museum's celebration of the computer, which Apple released on January 19, 1983. Also: This 1980s ...