We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. A new computer is a major purchase. It can be among the most expensive electronics that money can buy, potentially functioning as the center ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. As time goes on, a cutting-edge computer will quickly lose its value as newer components are released with greater power and more features.

At Dartmouth, long before the days of laptops and smartphones, he worked to give more students access to computers. That work helped propel generations into a new world. By Kenneth R. Rosen Thomas E.