The EU has spoken: the directive for the patenting of computer-implemented inventions is dead. But that does not mean the end for software-related patents, as long as patent attorneys consider all ...

Ports available on computers before the advent of USB included serial (RS-232), parallel, SCSI, and PS/2, all with their own ...

Tara Shears reviews This is for Everyone: the Captivating Memoir from the Inventor of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee ...

On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor. John Bardeen, ...

The Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) has issued a revised set of examination guidelines for computer-related inventions. The revised guidelines came into effect on April 15 2005. KIPO ...

Try this free-association exercise. When you hear the word inventor , what names pop into your head? Chances are, you'll think of some long-dead genius from the 19th or early 20th century, such as ...

David Leavitt, acclaimed gay novelist, essayist, biographer and short story writer, discusses his book The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer, recorded in the KPFA ...

You can now control your computer, phone, tablet with virtually anything ranging from a banana all the way to a wiggly bowl of jello, including living pets and human beings. All this with Makey Makey ...

Kevin Tang is an eighth-grader in California who won $25,000 and the title of “America’s Top Young Scientist” for his science ...