Adapted from A People’s History of Computing in the United States by Joy Lisi Rankin. Out now from Harvard University Press. In the 1960s, Dartmouth College became ground zero for the coming explosion ...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xOCurBYI_gY] Programmer and CMU PhD Tom Murphy created a function to “beat” NES games by watching ...

A former lottery computer programmer who admitted to rigging computers to enable him to pick winning numbers and cheat four states out of $2.2 million in several lottery games over six years was ...

I was 5 or 6 when I got my first sense of the joys of computer programming. This was in the early 1980s, when few people had a computer. One day, my dad brought home a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, one of the ...