Tim Berners–Lee, the British scientist who invented the World Wide Web in 1989, while working at CERN in Geneva. Credit: CERN. to meet the demand for automated information sharing between scientists ...

U.S. inventor Douglas Engelbart was one of the visionaries of the computer age. Besides inventing the computer mouse, his insight laid the... Douglas Engelbart Dies At 88, Invented Computer Mouse ...

AI wasn't created by one person, instead, it evolved over decades. British mathematician Alan Turing shaped the idea of AI by asking "Can machines think?" and proposing the Turing test. In 1956, at ...

Hardly a modern invention, the electric car has a history tracing back all the way to the mid-1800s. Interest in technology has boomeranged over the years based on both consumer trends and economic ...

Burt Meyer, who invented toys like Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots, Lite-Brite and Mouse Trap in the 1960s that delighted generations of children, has died. He was 99. Meyer's creations arrived in the ...