Writing about music, a famous, impossible-to-properly-attribute saying goes, is like dancing about architecture. In 2010, anyone who dares write a book about computers runs the risk of facing a ...

Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Rick, and many others developed software that made computers intelligible to the common man. Bill ...

Good computer books are worth their weight in gold, because the online help in most applications leaves a lot to be desired. Unfortunately, while millions are spent programming software, considerably ...

As an undergraduate, Rob Pike first read Brian Kernighan's book on the C programming language while home sick from classes at the University of Toronto. "I lay in bed and I read it cover to cover," ...

C. 2500 BCE: Sumerian abacus -- c. 700 BC: Scytale -- c. 150: Antikythera mechanism -- c. 60: Programmable robot -- c. 850: "On Deciphering Cryptographic Messages ...

This month, my Scientific American column described the evolution of documentation for our tech products. You no longer get a printed user guide in the box; meanwhile, the computer-book industry ...

You win, Internet. Mattel and Random House have pulled a book about Barbie studying to be a computer engineer after widespread online complaints that the character was depicted as inept and dependent ...