A computer that is specialized for word processing functions. Years ago, Wang Labs made its mark with dedicated word processing machines; however, after personal computers began to infiltrate ...

Jay Nordlinger points me to an obituary in the New York Times a couple of days ago: Evelyn Berezin, a computer pioneer who emancipated many a frazzled secretary from the shackles of the typewriter ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how to do more with your consumer gadgets. Nearly a decade ago, I had a vision of an Improbable, Impractical Word ...

Computing pioneer Evelyn Berezin died at 93 this week. She was most known as the designer of the first true word-processing computer. But she designed many other innovative computing systems and ...

IBM engineer Leon Cooper helped develop the Magnetic Tape Selectric Typewriter, or MT/ST, the first electronic word-processing machine, beginning in the late 1950s. The Lexington-made product was ...

(1) A software application that is used to create and edit text documents. See word processing. (2) A machine dedicated to word processing functions. See word processing machine. THIS DEFINITION IS ...

I'm not really sure your statement about it laying the groundwork for the surge in business computing is that accurate. IBM's card-punch computers were available at most levels by the end of the 1960s ...

Tsukuba, Japan—When reading a passage, readers may pause at a particular word or return to reread it. Studies using eye-tracking, which record eye movements during reading, have suggested that word ...