Computer science will now become part of a group of core subjects measured in league tables Computer science is going to become part of the English Baccalaureate - one of the measures used in school ...

In November 1970 a patent was granted for a device dubbed an “X-Y position indicator for a display system”.

If you’re on a desktop right now, you’re probably using a computer mouse. In which case, you should raise a glass to William English. English, an engineer and researcher, died on July 26 at the age of ...

William English, the engineer and researcher who helped build the first computer mouse and, in 1968, orchestrated an elaborate demonstration of the technology that foretold the computers, tablets and ...

Researchers at MIT have created a database of annotated sentences written by non-native English speakers, the university announced in a press release Friday, in an effort to improve the ways in which ...

On Dec. 9, 1968, the then-small world of computer engineering was shaken to its core by a presentation of new technologies projected onto a screen in a San Francisco hall. The attendees at the ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. — Adults are now able to unlock new opportunities and build on skills with the YWCA Literacy Council's diverse range of English language and computer skills classes. The classes will ...

WENCHI, Ethiopia – The kids in this volcano-rim village wear filthy, ragged clothes. They sleep beside cows and sheep in huts made of sticks and mud. They don't go to school. Yet they all can chant ...

It's hard to imagine PC gaming without the trusty mouse, and one of its loving parents, engineer William English, has died. He was 91. As the New York Times recounts in its obituary, English met ...