Personalities: Nov. 1, 1963
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…
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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."