In the beginning, computers were mystical machines created to meet the special needs of government, researchers and large corporations. These were "mainframe" computers. Huge and expensive, only the ...

Computer geeks are indeed an odd and esoteric bunch, puzzling and sometimes frustrating to people who've never studied the intricacies of hard drive failures or Internet Protocol stacks. Nowhere are ...

Should geeks serve on juries in disputes that involve high technology? Not necessarily, according to a federal judge, speaking at a computer security conference Thursday. While technical cases can be ...

The typical image of a computer geek is that of a socially clueless loner. Not only single, but can’t even get a date. Data, however, paints a somewhat different picture — at least when it comes to ...

As we progress into the digital age, America needs its computer geeks. Yet the U.S. government, rather than mine their ideas and talents, has thrown too many of them into prison. If we want to beat ...

Where are all the women who forsake social outings to stay up all night writing computer code and read science fiction? Most of those computer "geeks" (as the stereotype goes) live in countries that ...

Gibbs celebrates you, the computer geek! You, my computer geek friend, are fantastic! You are amazing! You can coax electrons to do things that don’t just matter to people, they have transformed our ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Even the most quirky of computer nerds can learn to flirt with finesse thanks to a new "flirting course" being offered to budding IT engineers at Potsdam University south of Berlin.

As a genre, fantasy games offer many possibilities with modern technology for the computer gamer, while the board and card gamers have worlds of games to explore. What was limited to Dungeons and ...

Four interns are brought into Manhattan and given 12 weeks to design, develop, debug and ship a program that will change the way computer geeks around the world fix their friends' computers.