“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 ...

Computers have a long and complex history, and they've been around far longer than the internet. In the past, computers were used to perform mathematical and logical tasks that were difficult for ...

A version of this article appeared in the Summer 2016 issue of strategy+business. Excerpted with permission from From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives, by ...

For years, Barbara Simons was the loneliest of Cassandras—a technologist who feared what technology had wrought. Her cause was voting: Specifically, she believed that the electronic systems that had ...

Harry Halpin wants our internet conversations to be more private. He’s helped create a new kind of network that might make it possible. Harry Halpin works on internet privacy for many reasons, but ...