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COUPLING yesterday’s sense of thrift with today’s management-by-computer techniques, John Eldred Swearingen, 45, has sharply raised earnings in the five years that he has been…

R Adm Grace Hopper, namesake of the tech titan’s new superchip, pioneered the idea of automatic programming

There are some people who cannot see a blue and black tractor without immediately thinking it a Ford, which must frustrate New Holland.

Patent helped managers, programmers and lawyers at young software firms feel as if they were forming an industry of their own

In 1968, nearly a decade after he and several other partners started the company Applied Data Research, Martin Goetz received his patent, for data-sorting software for mainframes. It was major news in the industry: An article in Computerworld magazine bore the headline "First Patent Is Issued for Software, Full Implications Are Not Known."

In 1968, nearly a decade after he and several other partners started the company Applied Data Research, Goetz received his patent, for data-sorting software for mainframes.

“I knew at some point in time the patent office would recognize” computer software, he said. It happened in 1968, helping to ignite the software market.

What happened after the credits rolled on Oppenheimer?

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Gainesville man hits the century mark on Memorial Day.